10-15Minutes Boot Loading Time Windows 7 32Bit (cluberti please help)

[tamiazher]

Hello cluberti,
Hope you are fine.
I have had this laptop for a while now and recently it has started to act very weirdly it takes ages to start up. At least about 15 minutes to start up. I have tried everything and it still loads very slowly.

So after going back and fourth I found out the Msft performance tools and did some scan and now I got tons of data and I have tried to analyze it but no luck.

I thought it was my "audio card" so I disabled it and it is still loading very slow.

Would you be kind enough to have a look at my ETL/XML file and help me out?

I asked you for help because I found that you helped another user with similar issue.

Thanks

 

[cluberti]

LOL - you did get my attention . If you post your ETL file (please zip it up with 7zip first) to one of the file sharing sites in the tutorial, I will of course take a look.

 

[whs]

You could try Soluto - it will tell you exactly which process takes how long during boot.

 

[tamiazher]

Thank you everyone for help.
Here is the ETL file....

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25274489/boot.zip

 

[cluberti]

OK, this is interesting. Has this machine had group or local policies applied? Is this machine a part of a domain, or not? The reason I ask is that the bulk of the time in this trace for the delay is Windows writing to the event log, starting at approximately the same time the audio service starts. 99% of the writes to the event log are to the security event log, and the other is to the diag log file (expected). The Audio service starts, and when the Group Policy client service starts, the writes to the system event log increase in earnest to the point that they peg the hard disk at 100%. Once these writes go back to "normal", the system picks up again and seems to run normally.

Hence my ask - is there a group policy or local policy being applied that would change or affect the security or security monitoring on the system? Because that's what is causing this delay.

 

[tamiazher]

Dear Cluberti,
This laptop, I use at home and every now and then at Starbucks. It was working fine days ago and all of sudden this whole thing started.

There should be no group policy or local policy, I did install McAfee however I stopped the services that started with windows by McAfee.

Not that I love McAfee because I use Ubuntu on my other laptop, I just have this few years deal with McAfee so I thought I will install it rather than nothing..

 

[gregrocker]

MucAfee is one of the worst infections a computer can have. I wouldn't even bother trying to salvage an installation Muc'd by it, but would wipe the HD to clean reinstall: Reinstalling Windows 7

At the bare minimum use whatever tool is required now to remove the Muc, or try reimaging or restoring to before you installed it.

Carl can likely help you determine if it applied group policy while it was running aMuc.

 

[tamiazher]

Hi Greg,
Thanks for feedback, will wait what Carl has to say as well

 

[cluberti]

As I have mentioned before (and I will reiterate again for clarity), stopping services for antivirus applications does not unload their filter drivers, and as such isn't a good troubleshooting step. However, in this case I have no direct proof antivirus plays a big role, although given this slowdown is 100% disk related, it stands to reason it's partially culpable. The big area of concern is why the group policy client takes 100+ seconds to parse, and why the system is writing so feverishly to the security log (and for so long as well).

When did you install McAfee onto this system, specifically?

 

[tamiazher]

I installed a while back I really dont remember the date I would say 2-3 weeks?

 

[cluberti]

OK, so the install wouldn't coincide with the install - could be an update, but again I see no concrete proof (and I've never seen McAfee do this before). I am going to ask you to do the following:

1. Open an elevated cmd prompt
2. Execute the following command:
   

   gpresult /z > %userprofile%\desktop\gpresult.txt

Attach gpresult.txt from your desktop to your reply so we can look at what is happening in group policy.

 

[tamiazher]

I am not able to execute the command I keep getting access denied. I did try to elevate the cmd prompt but it just won't elevate. It keeps saying "access denied" basically I tried every single way to get it elevated but it stays in c:/windows/system32......

This is windows 7 starters.

I do not need any group policy is there a way to turn it off?

Btw I tried everything the UAC is totally disabled and I am actually admin. So not sure why I am getting that.

 

[tamiazher]

Hence my ask - is there a group policy or local policy being applied that would change or affect the security or security monitoring on the system? Because that's what is causing this delay.

No there has been no group or local policy applied, to best of my knowledge I never did anything close to this. I use this laptop just for fun every now and then as it is super light to carry around nothing else and such I never played with settings.

 

[karlsnooks]

As I see it, you have hosed your system.

Please follow GregRockerss advice and reininstall.

After that stay away from all those handy dandy programs, tips, etc to help your computer.

Don't solve problems that don't exist except in the minds of the feeble or those who want to peddle software.