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Slow (10 min) start-up BEFORE login screen
Hey all. Need some advice please. I have reviewed past threads, but replies are specific to that person's computer's specifics, so I am posting yet another question on this same issue.
Over the last year, this computer has been taking longer and longer to restart and reach the login screen, but as of a few days ago, it now takes about 7-10 minutes after the BIOS window and before the login screen. It’s a consistent issue.
As far as I can tell, the PC is fairly healthy:
- Windows 7 updates are current
- All drivers are up to date
- Kaspersky says there are zero issues
- CCleaner shows a clean registry and there are not many items in the startup
- Defragger says the HD is 4% fragmented, is in “Good” health and is only ~25% full
- SFC/SCANNOW says there are no integrity violation
- All temp directories are regularly flushed.
- There is only one peripheral — a Verbatim 25GB NTFS HD — for backup and it appears healthy
Other than that, I have not done anything unusual in the last week or so. The last software install was three weeks ago when I installed Office 365 -- but that would not affect startup would it?
Where do I start? I assume something is hanging but how do I access and interpret logs related to startup? Any advice will be appreciated. : )
Last edited by RProsser; 20 Apr 2017 at 19:03.