Slow boot and other issues on modern hardware

Megahertz07 said:

Did you try a Clean boot?
Clean boot is not the same as safe mode.
Open MSconfig and disable all non MS services and all startup programs.


You can trace startup and shutdown.
Have a look at Why it takes so long to shut down?

Okay, I tried a clean boot but it didn't help, still booted just as slowly as always. Could it have anything to do with the BIOS settings? I noticed my motherboard apparently doesn't have an option to enable CSM, only fast boot which is disabled already. Windows 7 still boots though, it just takes an insane amount of time when looking at the specs.

Megahertz07 said:

You can trace startup and shutdown.
Have a look at Why it takes so long to shut down?

Did you trace the startup?

Megahertz07 said:

Did you trace the startup?

Ah sorry, I missed that. I followed the steps now and traced the boot and it gave me an .xml file in C:\Temp. What should I do now?

Did you open it?

Megahertz07 said:

Did you open it?

Yeah, there's a bunch of listed programs/drivers and boot times etc. What should I do with the file?

Can you post the xml file here as an attachment?
You may need to change the .xml to .xml.txt

You have to achieve a graphic like the one in Why it takes so long to shut down?

Megahertz07 said:

You have to achieve a graphic like the one in Why it takes so long to shut down?

Okay, how do I do that? I only got the .xml file from it.

Ok first slow down and eat some cookies, then watch some sesame street then, I would ask is this a new problem or did you change something recently? or, is this just out of the blue?