Incredibly Slow Boot-Up Following Windows 10 1709 Update

[LoDImas]

Hi Zinou,

I am a little bit perplexed. The trace I sent you was already made disabling almost all services (keeping only Microsoft and essential servies - by essential I mean a service that I suspect is necessary for proper hardware behaviour). I also disabled all startup programs (those listed in the startup section of task manager). I remember, for instance, disabling Dropboc update service. But now, as you show me, some of the processes I disabled are listed in the trace. I will use Autorun and deeper research to make sure these programs are not runing at all at startup to make a clean trace. I will probably need two or three days to make an extensive detailed research. I need to compare in detail what Autoruns, msconfig and Task manger list, as there are several discrepancies that I need to understand first. I will let you know the results when ready.

[Zinou]

Some of these programs are started as a service and others as a scheduled task. so take a look also at the scheduler.

[Zinou]

Hi @LoDImas

Have you done any progress on this issue? Can you update us, please !

[LoDImas]

Hi Zinou,

I am sorry again, but I was very busy again this last week.

I made some advances, but nothing relevant. 

First of all, as I own two laptops, which I installed and configured almost the same way, I am comparing Autoruns configuration on boths.

Also, I made a report of all the processes listed in thw WPR sorted by time consumption, and I am trying to match them with the corresponding entries in Autorun.

Finally, I was making research about how to delay the inititiation of startup processes (as I don't really want to avoid them). So, if the process is a scheduled task, I will delay its startup one hour (for instacne). If the process is a standard startup program, I would also delay its initiation according to its relevance (autoupdate processes would have a very low priority, and not started before 2 hours of computer uptime). I found that AnVir Task Manager seems to be a good solution for this strategy. But then, AnVir doesn't list exactly the same than Autoruns, so I want to match both reports to understand in detail the startup process.

In short, I am involved in further research and alternate approaches to my heavy startup process.

I guess I will need an additional week to give you a detailed answer of how the laptop behaves with minimal startup processes (disabling them using Autoruns); and how it behaves delaying the start processes in a gradual fashion.

Thank you for supporting me!