An update on my boot issue, about 4 months after doing the repair install of Windows 10:

Over the last months my boot logo time has been slowly getting longer and longer. After the repair install...

A quick update on my original issue:

I did the repair install (in-place upgrade) and it fixed my slow boot issue! It went from sitting 6 minutes on the initial Windows boot logo and spinning...

Thanks, I've been saving the in place upgrade for (almost) last, and I'm running out of options so I may need to do that. But first I have a few more ideas to try, and then some backups to make.
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zinou:
Yeah, that's the sucky part of all this :-/

zbook:
Hey, I remember that Soluto app! I'd tried it when it first was out, it was pretty slick. Too bad they killed it. I did some searching...

I also did a boot trace with ProcessMonitor and WinBootInfo, and though they can't give detail into what's causing the delay, they both show that there is a 4 minute delay at the start of boot.

On...

Some updates:

I was able to finally find an answer on how to see the Boot Phases. One non-obvious way of seeing them in WPA is to open your boot trace .etl file, and then click on Profiles > Apply...

Yes, I've done all of those steps, with the results that no errors were reported with sfc or dism or chkdisk.

And I've done a safe mode boot and also a clean boot, but the 4 minute boot delay...

Btw, below is an example of the analyzer app showing the Boot Phases category, within the Other section on the bottom left. I found this image on a technet article: Windows 10 Slow Boot

Thanks for the quick replies.

zbook, as I mentioned, I've already downloaded, installed, and taken a boot trace, using all of the recommended settings in the recorder. However, the analyzer is not...

Hi,

I followed the posted how-to on this forum and installed the performance toolkit and recorded my pc while its booting. I'd like to take a look at what's causing my boot time to be 4 minutes of...

A quick update, in case this might help other people that run into an issue I had.

I had to uninstall UltraUXThemePatcher, due to its patch-work being incompatible with an important app that I use...

Success! Once I used the Mr. GRiM method for placing the theme files and folders then they finally became active.

I needed to modify some other image numbers than the ones you suggested, maybe...

Thanks for all the great info Jerry!

I've worked on this a while today, but I may be stuck for now. It looks like UltraUXThemePatcher 3.0.5 (the latest version) is not compatible with my version...

I experimented some more with a high contrast theme, and plugged in all the colors I could into it. It did change the menubar and list header to a better color, but it seems that too many appearance...

Lol, yes, I'd say those don't look the greatest, but they do have non-white menubar and list headers. I did try them for fun, and it shows that what I want to do is technically possible, somehow.
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Thanks, I've tried that already, but it only adjusts the titlebar, taskbar, and start menu.

I'm willing to use Resource Hacker if that's what it takes! :-)

On Windows 10 the menubar and list header are white by default. I'd like to change them to a greyish color instead. I've tried using the SMACC tool, editing the registry, and editing my main .theme...