Hi - have been 'optimizing' windows 7 (using msconfig, stopping non Microsoft services, uninstalling 'bloatwear' etc). The laptop rebooted consistently within 55 seconds. Then all of a sudden it's over 2 minutes. Thinking I had broken something by constant
tweaking I eventually did a complete reinstall booting from the installation CD, reinstalled all the programs I wanted (Firefox, Ccleaner, AVG, Eve and a couple of Adobe products). All was fine - really fast reboot UNTIL Windows finds the time to install all
the updates (22 of them) released since my Windows installation dvd was produced. It seems to be this update that suddenly more than doubles the reboot time. Any suggestions? I can list the updates if necessary...
Your Windows boots in 84s to the desktop and is loaded completely after 121 seconds. This is too much.
The PreSMSS subphase begins when the kernel is invoked. During this subphase, the kernel initializes data structures and components. It also starts the PnP manager, which initializes the BOOT_START drivers that were loaded during the
OSLoader phase.
When the PnP manager detects a device, it loads and initializes the device’s drivers.
This PreSMSS subphase takes 14s for you. The loading of your AVG AntiVirus tool takes too long (5s) in this phase.
The SMSSInit subphase begins when the kernel passes control to the session manager process (Smss.exe). During this subphase, the system initializes the registry,loads and starts the devices and drivers that are not marked
BOOT_START, and starts the subsystem processes. SMSSInit ends when control is passed to Winlogon.exe.
SMSSInit subphase takes 15s. This is also too long!
The WinLogonInit subphase begins when SMSSInit completes and starts Winlogon.exe. During WinLogonInit, the user logon screen appears,the service control manager starts services , and Group Policy scripts run. WinLogonInit ends when the
Explorer process starts.
The WinLogonInit subphase takes 35s. Loading the services takes (AVG takes 31s) a lot of time.
The ExplorerInit subphase begins when Explorer.exe starts. During ExplorerInit, the system creates the desktop window manager (DWM) process, which initializes the desktop and displays it for the first time.
The ExplorerInit subphase takes 20s for you.
What I can see, is that you disabled Superfetch and this is the cause of your terrible slow start. Disabling Superfetch also disables ReadyBoot, the advanced FilePrefetcher which dramatically reduces the boot time!
So, Enable Superfetch again and run the boot training which I've shown here:
