'Welcome' screen after entering password hangs for 15 seconds

[ArtistInNeed]

I recently re-formatted my hard-drive and re-installed windows 7. There were some problems, so I did it again. Both times I've had this issue...

When I turn on my laptop and windows 7 boots up everything's fine up until I type in my password to log in. The 'welcome' screen stays there for nearly a good 15 seconds, when before it would only be there for about a second at most. If I log out and log back in again the welcome screen only stays there for about a second again, so this is a problem with only the first time logging in.

I've googled this a little bit and I don't have a solid colour background at all.

I'm going to try disabling all startup services and programs to see if one of those is the problem but while I do this I'd like to know if anyone would know how to solve this slightly annoying problem. ( EDIT: The problem still stands with all services and programs disabled)

Thanks to everybody in advance! All help is greatly appreciated!

 

[brady]

Once the screen finally loads after the 15 sec delay, do you have Disk errors in the 'system' Event Logs?

 

[ArtistInNeed]

No, I don't. :/

 

[cluberti]

15 seconds is awfully close to a service network timeout. If you release your IP (if you are on dhcp), unplug the network cable, and then reboot - does it also wait 15 seconds?

 

[ArtistInNeed]

15 seconds is awfully close to a service network timeout. If you release your IP (if you are on dhcp), unplug the network cable, and then reboot - does it also wait 15 seconds?

I just tried it, it still waits for the 15 seconds

 

[cluberti]

OK. Does it happen if you let the system wait for 60 seconds after displaying the logon screen before attempting to logon?

 

[ArtistInNeed]

OK. Does it happen if you let the system wait for 60 seconds after displaying the logon screen before attempting to logon?

Hmm, I guy I found told me to try this
How to speed up boot process under Windows Vista or Windows 7 - MSFN

And initially I thought that too so I tested it, it still hung up on the welcome screen after leaving it for a few minutes.

Now it's much much faster, so I guess this topic can be closed
Thanks for the input, it was greatly appreciated nonetheless!