Boot time tripled after Antivirus subscription ended.

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure what changed, but as soon as my subscription to Norton ended on the 9th of this month, my boot times literally tripled. I set up some views in Event Viewer, and prior to the 9th, my LONGEST boot time was 90,000 MS, and since the 9th, my SHORTEST boot time has been 350,000 MS.

Since then, I've installed Malwarebytes, checked for issues, installed AVG, checked for issues, removed both, and installed Bitdefender. The only thing I have left that has changed on the 9th was AVG Web Tuneup that I just cant seem to remove.

It seems to hang at the screen when it is loading the log on page. I started boot-logging, and everything in the boot log seems to indicate it is started in a much shorter amount of time, but it still just hangs.

Can anyone give me some things to change around with?

***My computer is a custom computer, and it is running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit***

Just noticed this in the event viewer, "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications."
This seems to have been on my computer forever, but prior to the 9th, this step only took about 3 seconds, for the last 5 days, every time it ran, it took well over 1 minute and 17 seconds.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

***Only a few times has this happened, most of the time it is very high 1 minute +, but a few times since the 9th, it has been around 10-20 seconds

Hello Tangy,

If you have not already, I would start off by completely uninstalling Norton to see if that is the cause.

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/...rProfile_en_us

If not, then you could use the tutorial below to troubleshoot using a clean startup to hopefully ID a culprit.

Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

Tangy said:

Gave it a shot but the clean startup didn't change boot time. I was unable to shut off the bit defender antivirus and stuff, the services would not save with them off, but I've had this problem for a few days prior to installing bitdefender, so while it may be contributing to the problem, it can't be the root cause.

Did you uninstall Norton by going to their website & downloading their uninstaller as Brink suggested.

Having multiple anti virus programs will cause all sorts of trouble as they conflict with one another.

You should go to the websites of AVG & Bitdefender & download their uninstallers as just using Windows uninstaller from Programs & Features does not fully remove AV programs, so you need their uninstall utilities.

Did you run the Norton uninstaller - if not, you have not really uninstalled Norton and there could be a conflict.

I would also disable ALL startup programs.