Suddenly long boot times

I've been experiencing crazy long boot times recently. I've always had this problem to a certain extent, but it's getting way worse now. When I first got this and until a couple weeks ago, it had been rising from about 60-70 seconds to a minute and a half and up to two. Suddenly, today it skyrocketed to 270 seconds - almost 5 minutes. I rebooted 3 times and all of them took upwards of 200 seconds. I have no idea what is going on, as the only event log I have without code 100 is for a program that took 4 extra seconds to start. I'm leaving the details below, and I can see that prefetch, explorer, and the postboot times seem to be the culprits, but I'm not sure how to deal with that, especially since my previous 2 reboots yielded results different to both this one and each-other. I have a quad-core AMD FX-4100 running at 4.1 GHz and 8 gigs of ram, so I don't think it's a hardware issue. I do have an HDD so I expect slower boot times than brand-new SSDs, but this is ridiculous. I do have quite a bit of files in it, but it's relatively defragmented and I have trouble believing that's the reason for it taking almost 5 minutes to boot. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'd like to avoid formatting as much as possible, as it would take forever to back up all my files.

 

• BootTsVersion: 2
• BootStartTime: 2014-07-13T22:20:03.780800500Z
• BootEndTime: 2014-07-13T22:25:00.752203700Z
• SystemBootInstance: 696
• UserBootInstance: 672
• BootTime: 251999
• MainPathBootTime: 94899
• BootKernelInitTime: 35
• BootDriverInitTime: 316
• BootDevicesInitTime: 4996
• BootPrefetchInitTime: 44268
• BootPrefetchBytes: 313401344
• BootAutoChkTime: 0
• BootSmssInitTime: 7008
• BootCriticalServicesInitTime: 3500
• BootUserProfileProcessingTime: 2892
• BootMachineProfileProcessingTime: 0
• BootExplorerInitTime: 62725
• BootNumStartupApps: 12
• BootPostBootTime: 157100
• BootIsRebootAfterInstall: false
• BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits: 0
• BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits: 0
• BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits: 0
• BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits: 0
• BootIsDegradation: false
• BootIsStepDegradation: false
• BootIsGradualDegradation: false
• BootImprovementDelta: 0
• BootDegradationDelta: 0
• BootIsRootCauseIdentified: false
• OSLoaderDuration: 3465
• BootPNPInitStartTimeMS: 35
• BootPNPInitDuration: 5029
• OtherKernelInitDuration: 3980
• SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS: 8970
• SystemPNPInitDuration: 283
• SessionInitStartTimeMS: 9294
• Session0InitDuration: 655
• Session1InitDuration: 160
• SessionInitOtherDuration: 6192
• WinLogonStartTimeMS: 16302
• OtherLogonInitActivityDuration: 12978
• UserLogonWaitDuration: 3900

Hello and welcome var14ble mate there are several things you can do for starters try the following


https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < use the /f option in Option 2 ifnecessary

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

download from bleeping computer – delete any rubbishthese find.

Then there is this
Optimize Windows 7 > point 8 is a good place to begin with
but try the other stuff first mate.

Hi. Here are my thoughts.

You could consider temporarily installing software that measures boot time and displays what's taking up time and from there you can probably work out what could be disabled or updated.

There are quite a few programs that fit the bill one that I've personally used and liked is:

Soluto: Displays each application that runs on boot and what it costs you in boot time. This software should be uninstalled once you've used it to fix problems as you don't want it running on every boot.

Download Soluto 1.3.1323.0 - FileHippo.com

Other than that if you want to get a little more technical and use Event Viewer to see if your Antivirus program is acting up (or something else) you might want to follow the steps listed in the following article:

Use Windows 7 Event Viewer to track down issues that cause slower boot times - TechRepublic

Hint: Don't forget to repeat the steps and create a second custom view as shown in the text underneath Figure C (below the image). Also not everything that's listed will be a problem. you should look at anything that seems to take an unusually long time and focus on those issues.

So did you go with the optimize tutorial?? and if those sfc / chkdsk did nothing then it may be a hardware problem.

Perhaps it might be an idea to start with this SeaTools for Windows | Seagate

if it comes up nothing then a surface test with this Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition. < see my pic

Hi again, sorry - I missed the additional details in your first post (javascript was disabled). However I think that those details are not really helpful to you. What you might like to see is details like the following. I'll use my machine as an example.

View and details similar to your post:



Would like to see the following event ID's in custom view:

Boot Degradation plus custom view set up to include Event ID's 101 to 110. You're only showing Event ID 100.



And the details:



Soluto: They make a few products. The one I mention is not supposed to speed up anything. It's supposed to measure boot time and provide a report like this one:



From there you can choose to disable anything that's not actually needed:



That only helps with processes though rather than other stuff.

Other than that go with the other suggestions!

Best of luck!

Like you said - Soluto just checks for processes running on boot that you can choose to get rid of but if it's a hardware issue it won't help.

Have you got Diagnostics enabled in Services? If not then the following filter will remain empty.



Hardware problems isn't something that I'm comfortable on helping diagnose!