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How do you diagnose Windows Startup?
I'm trying to determine which process is stalling/not responding during the later part of my windows 7 boot.
It pretty much gets to the main desktop window. It the allows for me to start a program if I do it immediately after reaching the desktop screen.
If I wait a while, the machine is still in the process of running some startup apps/services ect... it eventually gets stuck. I can't start any new programs, current programs aren't responsive. Putting the mouse over the start button results in a blue spinning circle.
If I try to start apps ect. a message will typically appearing letting me know a process is not responding, do I want to stop it?
If I do, the desktop disappears, only leaving the wall paper,.it then takes some 5 to 10 minutes to return. Then all is well.
Similar behavior if I just sit and wait for the blue busy spinner to stop. The 10 minute wait is killing me. Does this on every boot.
There have been times when the wait occurs between the login process and the windows desktop screen.
I've tried turning off all of the optional startup programs via msconfig.
I've run chkdisk
I've tried to see what program starts to run when the freeze occurs using the task manager. No luck, I don't see any processes start up, and the CPU utilization stays low. No heavy activity of any kind.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike