Long delay after windows start screen

[hdelfs]

Hello friends,

I must edit my problem description, which might be ambiguous: Most of the replies concern delays after windows ist started.
But in my case the delay between windows start and login screen is quite normal. The unusual delay comes after the login screen appears.

Here my text before editing:
I have a problem recently. My computer starts quite normal (~25sec) until the logon screen appears. Then I enter my password. After entering the password the screen remains unchanged for another 33 seconds, until the desktop appears.
The same happens, when I restart the computer after standby, and also if I remove my password. Then the windows start screen stays unchanged for the same time.
The event protocol shows no errors or warnings whatsoever.
Does anybody know, what the reason might be?

 

[Megahertz07]

Check for corrupted files. On cmd type sfc /scannow

Schedule a check disk. On cmd type chkdsk c: /f
It will ask if you want to Schedule on next restart. Answer yes.

 

[hdelfs]

scannow: no problems
chkdsk /f: no problems

An additional hint: If the windows logon window appears and I enter my passwort immediately, then I experience a delay of 33 sec. If I wait with typing my password for 25 sec., then the delay is only 8 sec. So it is not the password processing that causes delay.

 

[MoxieMomma]

Hi:

It sounds as if you have too many programs running at startup and/or possible clashes/conflicts among those programs, especially security applications. For example, running multiple real-time anti-virus programs or overlapping security applications can slow system start-up.

Another thought: have you cleaned out temp files using the native Windows disk cleanup utility and/or a 3rd-party program, such as CCleaner?

EDIT: If you could please fill out your system specs, that would help us to better help you:
System Info - See Your System Specs

MM

 

[hdelfs]

I had already hope, I could solve my problem. The links below show an entry which fits exactly my problem: 30727-incredibly-long-delay-long-desktop.html
And in fact, looking into the system settings in system control I found a 30 sec delay for the choice of the OS. I changed that to zero, saved the changes. But after a restart nothing has changed though the 30 sec delay is no more in the settings.

 

[TechnoMage2016]

There is definitely a 30 sec delay in the boot settings, but, Zero (0) is not an acceptable setting.
Reduce the 30 sec delay to just 3 sec's and everything will work OK.

To decrease boot times and generally speed up your PC, do the following.

Shorten the Boot Time in XP, Vista & Windows 7 & 8, 8.1 & Windows 10

Go to the start button, choose run, then type msconfig and press Ok.
On the system configuration window, choose the "Boot.INI" tab.

Check “No Gui Boot”, then lower the timeout to a more manageable time.
I choose 3 seconds in stead of 30. (windows won’t accept a lower number than 3)

Next choose advanced options.
This is where you can choose how many processors you have.
Most modern PC's are duo core (2 processors) with some quad core (4 processors, and there are even some with 8 Cores or more, )
then choose OK. The Windows default is only 1 core.

Now choose apply and OK, reboot and you should see a marked decrease in boot time, and an Increase in Run-Time efficiency.

On every one of the thousands of PC's I've worked on over the past 36 years, there will be several to a dozen or more things starting up on boot that don't even need to be running on the PC, or can be run when needed from a desktop icon. So I always go into the "Startup" folder and eliminate everything that does not absolutely Need to be run from Startup. After you've RUN MSCONFIG in the above blue lines, then go into the Startup tab and UN-Check everything that does NOT need to run at bootup.

I've gotten boot times of several minutes down to just a few seconds, using these techniques.

For the ultimate 'Tune-Up' I also shut down all the redundant "Services". I found out how to do that on the "Black Viper's" website. *



* The number of Services that run in the background have skyrocketed since they first showed up in XP. In XP, I was able to shut down 21 Services, and in Windows 7 and above I can shut down 40 services. That takes a huge load off of the CPU and RAM.

 

[hdelfs]

I did all you recommended. No change whatsoever.

 

[Eric3742]

Desktop.

When the system start, it will load the all the icons on the desktop.
It will also check if the icon is correct or not.
As icon is a shortcut and any other files, program, etc; it will check on booting, if the shortcut, etc is valid or not.
Else is not valid, it will try to do the search.

To have a faster boot up time, remove all the icons on the desktop.
Or remove unnecessary shortcuts and files, programs, applications.

 

[Megahertz07]

Run msconfig.
Go to services tab, at bottom left mark Hide all MS services and then press Disable All (it will disable all non MS services)
Go to startup tab and disable all.
Apply and reboot. See if it makes the difference.

If you see a good improvement:
Run msconfig
Go to services tab, at bottom left mark Hide all MS services and then enable the fist half.
Go to startup tab and hen enable the fist half.
Apply and reboot. See if it makes the difference.

If it makes a big difference, the problem is on the 1st half. If it doesn't the problem is on the 2nd half.

keep going enabling or disabling the half of the half till you find the problematic service.

 

[hdelfs]

The suggestion of Eric is definitely not the reason. In secure mode all the icons are loaded as well, but there is no delay. The delay must be in one of the things, which are not loaded in secure mode.
I used a wrong password. The usual delay passed until the message came, that the password is wrong. So I see the delay occurs after showing the windows startscreen and before the password is checked.

 

[Barman58]

two things to check ...

Do you have any regular USB type drive or any remote mapped drives. If these are for some reason not available at boot it can cause this type of delay.

Also, If your Graphics card driver has recently been updated this can sometimes cause delay when changes are not fully compatible with your settings, often reloading the previous driver will solve the issue until a future more compatible driver is available

Over the years I have occasionally seen these issues but it is a rare occurrence

 

[hdelfs]

The suggestion of megahertz seems very good and systematic. Unfortunately, after disabling all services except the ms services the problem persists. So if one of the services is the culprit, it is one of the ms services.

 

[hdelfs]

There was a suggestion by barman (where has it gone?) that the delay might be caused by external USB devices. Without all USB devices the startup until the login screen appears is in fact considerably faster (10 sec instead of 25), but after the login screen comes my problem, and that is unchanged.

 

[Barman58]

What I have seen in the past with laptops that are used both as part of a company network and also as stand alone devices is that when booting the laptop, when not connected to the networks, will spend a long time trying to connect to network resources that are not available - These resources may be USB devices, manually assigned links to networked folders, and also those set as part of the users network profile.

The fact that some services/systems may require access to specific hardware to work, (network/USB) printers, scanners, NAS systems can also case delays as the laptop searches and re-searches for the device.

This may not be a common issue but can certainly generate the delays you are experiencing

 

[hdelfs]

To Barman: My laptop ws never part of such a network.

 

[Megahertz07]

Create another Admin user - Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts\Manage Accounts - Create a new Account
When you get to log in screen log in to the new user and see if the problem persist.

 

[Barman58]

OK if I might suggest a Diagnostic start-up ...

this Tutorial gives all info you need for the various options available

Advanced Startup Options - Boot to in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

If you follow the guide to get to the advanced startup settings there is an option 2 to enable boot logging if you set this on and boot it will display a verbose start-up onnext start - if you see a long delay at a certain point then the issue lies with either the process before or after ( depends on if the process sends a finished code.) so we'll know better how to proceed