Startup Delay after Welcome Screen

[H2SO4]

OK, I got it.

Thanks to everyone who helped me solving the problem!

Glad you managed to find the cause

 

[tbdarkspirit]

Hello,

I have the same issue with a fresh install !

Boot time is very good with the guest account or an user account, but with the admin account it take 30 sec to the "Welcome screen" !

Work also fine in safe mode...

How to solve this issue?

 

[Megalos]

Do you have any mapped network-drives?

 

[tbdarkspirit]

Hello,

None. I have even disabled this function and that does not change anything.

 

[Megalos]

If I'm right, you have a different problem than I had. Your delay is before the welcome screen, mine was after. I don't know the solution to your problem, maybe someone else here has some ideas.

 

[tbdarkspirit]

Hello,

In fact my problem is now solved by a re-installation of win seven...

Thanks for your help.

 

[Megalos]

You're welcome.

 

[ykaeric]

Alternate solution

I was having the same problem and tried a lot of different things to find a solution. On my home built PC, I forget to tell the BIOS that I don't have a floppy drive. The two things I did to eliminate the blank screen hang after the Welcome screen were:

1. Made sure my NAS was powered on and connected - my Win7 box auto connects at startup.

2. Disabled the floppy disk in the BIOS.

I used to spend 90 seconds waiting for the desktop to load after entering my password to login. Now it takes 3 seconds.

Total boot time start to finish was 2 minutes 15 seconds. Now it is 48 seconds.

 

[Megalos]

Thanks for letting us know. Looks like Windows has problems when it can not find some offline location (like mapped network drives that are offline or a NAS that is not turned on).