Delayed boot

[krishen]

Windows 7 Pro 64bit. After boot up all desktop including gadgets appear but the Messenger does not/takes a long time. I disabled Messenger from the start-up list yet this did not help and the delay continued. I have read a tutorial about diagnosing delayed boot up but it is beyond my knowledge and experience. I will appreciate guidance and help in this matter. Thank you
SYSTEM DETAILS
Toshiba, Intel Mobile- Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8400 @2.26GHz, Socket P (478), Satellite Pro A300 PSAGDE-00300EN S.NO.X8171096Q
Physical Memory 3070MB, Disk Space – Disk C 149GB, Disk D 147GB
Page File 3096MB Maximum used 146MB
Motherboard Toshiba (no details provided)
BIOS INSYDE Version 2.20 12/07/2009
Memory Samsung 2048+1024MB DDR2(PC2-6400) in slot 1 and slot 2.
Video Adapter ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470, 252MB memory- shared system memory 1278MB. BIOS date 17/03/2008. Driver version 8.634.1.0 date 29/07/2009
DIRECTX 9.0
Laptop Monitor Model LP154WX4-TLC8 Manufactured 2008. 15.4”Display. Resolution 1280x800@60Hz-Aspect Ratio 16:10, EDID Version 1 revision 3
Sound Realtek High Definition Audio
Hard Drive Hitachi HTS543232L9SA00 320GB 5400RPM Serial ATA Transfer Mode SATA 150.
DVD-RW Pioneer DVRTD08A ATA Device Firmware 1.54 Serial ATA SATA-150, 64KB Buffer.
BATTERY PA3534U-1BRS Unique ID 04D9PA3534U-1BRS
Wireless Adapter Intel(R)WiFi Link 5100AGN
Ethernet Adapter Realtek PCIe GBE
OPERATING SYSTEM
Windows 7 Professional (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)

 

[richc46]

A clean boot is the best way to diagnose startup problems
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

 

[krishen]

Windows 7 - Delayed boot

Sorry. I could not follow the instruction because I did not find the option
c. Click to select half of the check boxes in the Service list in the step below:-
Step 2: Enable half of the services
Will appreciate guidance as to how to enable half the services. Do I have to click each service one by one until I reach half of the list?
According to event viewer diagnostic logs the list of the services causing delayed boot is quite long to name few:-
Multi Media Class Sceduler Service
Group Policy Clinent
ProfSVC
System Event Notification service (SENS)
SVChost.exe
System Iron
Windows Audio Service.
Look forward to advice and help. Thanks

 

[richc46]

Let me try to explain in my words.
Un check all the services. Then if the computer runs the way it should, put one or two services back at a time by checking them. At the point that the computer does not work properly, you know it was one of the recently checked ones.

 

[mickey megabyte]

some of those are microsoft services - are you sure you ticked the box 'hide all microsoft services'?

and yes, do tick/untick half the boxes...but only the non-microsoft ones!

 

[Daave]

There are delay in the start of system, must be a virus issue. This is the biggest sign of it.

 

[mickey megabyte]

'must' or 'probably'?

 

[richc46]

If you think there is a virus, run a full scan anti virus
and
Download and scan with malwarebytes.

 

[krishen]

Dear Rich and all members who have kindly responded.

I have done whatever was required in the instructions but was unable to pin point any specific item. I enclose details if these can be of any guide. Kindly bear in mind I am not a technical person.
Regarding virus or malware I scan my computer every day using Norton 360 and in addition today I used Microsoft Malware remover too which did not find any problem.

Thank you all very much for help and advice which is very much appreciated.
Kind regards
Kris