Incredibly Slow Boot Following Windows 10 update

[Zinou]

After analyzing your boot trace, I think your problem is caused by Intel Management Engine Interface.

As you can see in the CPU precise graph it's causing a delay of 60s.

The version available on your system is 11.0.0.1146 for Windows 8. And I think there is no newer version vailable for windows 10 on the HP website.

And unfortunately I didn't find a newer version on the Intel website, for your CPU model I5 4210u !

To solve your problem, you can uninstall the Intel driver and Windows will use the default Microsoft driver. usually it works fine.

[Robert_LPT]

Hi,

Thx for all the work on the analysis !

I've de-installed the driver. First time boot after deinstall speeds up considerably, but Windows more or less automatically installs back the intel driver (version: 11.0.0.1146). Boot times are slow again afterwards

After that, I've downloaded the latest intel driver which (as you noted) are not compatible with the CPU (4210U). I managed to install the new driver (version: 11.0.0.1157), however after that the sytem hanged itself after boot. After a manual shut down, the system booted again and installed version: 11.0.0.1146. So, everything is still working, unfortunately without  any progress on the slow boot.

Is there a way to force windows to install a standard windows driver for the Intel Management Engine Interface? Just removing TeeDriverW8x64.sys from the laptop is probably a bit blunt. Thanks in advance for your response.

[Zinou]

Yes Windows will try keeping installing the driver. There is a method to block that, using group policy but you need to have windows 10 Pro.

Alternative: you can try Driver Easy tool. It will try to find and install the latest version for you. 

[Robert_LPT]

Thx for your help. Trouble is with the version of teedriverw8x64.sys. Driver easy find the updated 2017 version which is not compatible with my laptop configuration. Installation failed.

Just for fun I replaced teedriverw8x64.sys by the new version manually. The laptop hung itself at boot. 🙂 And I roll back to the old version.

In other posts some comments are made to roll back to the Windows 8.1 version of the driver. I'm a bit short with time, but might try this at the weekend.

Cheers.