Laptop taking ~10 minutes to load a user profile

Howlin1 said:

I have 9 applications starting:
Winstron Hotkey APP
Intel(R) Common User Interface
Intel(R) Common User Interface
avast! Antivirus
Microsoft Security Client
Microsoft Windows Operating System
Gadwin PrintScreen
Skype
DAEMON Tools Pro

Hello Howlin1.

That is not a lot of applications.
Try with disabling avast! Antivirus (A/V software can slow your computer) , Gadwin PrintScreen , Skype , and Daemon Tools Pro (Daemon Tools , slowed my computer too and I uinstalled this).

And one small question : Do you have MSE with avast! ? I think Microsoft Security Client is for MSE. ONLY If you have this 2 or more A/V software , uinstall all of this and try again. Then back only one software of that type !

Good luck.
Trinty :)

Try everything that has been suggested so far which are excellent suggestions. Then work through the other suggestions given in these Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7

I left my laptop off all night and turned it on not too long ago and it didn't take near as long to load a user profile as it use to. The only things I did last night was run the sfc /verifyonly and make a new user profile. When I went to log on today to my user profile it loaded up pretty much straight away I didn't need to log into any other profile first....So all I needed to do was to make a new user profile?

Why did you run sfc /verifyonly? Run SFC -SCANNOW Command

Remove Daemon Tools which is not compatible with Win7.

Use Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows firewall and no other AV. Keep Windows Updates current, especially any drivers in optional Updates.

Run a Clean boot as shown in Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7