Windows 1 minute startup delay

Hi there,

I initially posted this on the EightForums as this is on a Win8 machine, but got no response because there is little activity there. That should not be an issue though as this is probably not a specific Win8 problem. I'm hoping someone here is willing to guide me through a troubleshooting walk to get this annoyance out of the way ?
Something is adding a considerable delay in my Windows startup time. As soon as Explorer loads, the system is doing *something* in the background, causing my desktop icons etc. to appear only after a large delay, same goes for the tray icons and startup programs.
While it's doing that *something* the system is responsive though, so it seems to be a background thing.

If anyone is willing to walk me through to pinpoint this, that would be so sweet ! I'm fairly knowledgeable already around computers but doing this together is just much more fun and efficient. I tried disabling some startup items, but that's a rather unproductive approach and it would be better to measure stuff somehow ?

As @dalchina said, try a clean boot. Maybe it's a third party software that is causing this delay.
Also try to upgrade all your drivers. Go to the manufacturer website and check for new drivers updates for your machine model.

In last resort, take a boot trace with Windows Performance Toolkit and will see what's going on.

Have you installed any new hardware, drivers, updates or other software prior to this problem which may give you a clue? Remove any external drives since they can sometimes cause delays. I recently had a problem due to faulty DVD drive which i had to bin. Else try a boot trace as mentioned above.

Many thanks for all the suggestions. I'll get back with results, good or bad !

Thank you for your aid everyone. It's solved. I ran a boot trace first with the WPR but didn't understand the outcome. So I decided the less productive option of simply starting to disable services to boot via msconfig.

I don't know why or how, but simply disabling all non-microsoft services and re-enabling them did the trick. So nothing changed in the end, but a mere disable/enable solved it !

It's already solved. All third party services are enabled again and there is no more slow down

AzzKickr said:

Thank you for your aid everyone. It's solved. I ran a boot trace first with the WPR but didn't understand the outcome. So I decided the less productive option of simply starting to disable services to boot via msconfig.

I don't know why or how, but simply disabling all non-microsoft services and re-enabling them did the trick. So nothing changed in the end, but a mere disable/enable solved it !

Note Autoruns give you more control over disabling startup items / tasks / services etc than Msconfig https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns