Tried all of them, but prefetcher repair was the last that i tried. I guess that fixed my slow boot issue. Thanks a ton.

Update- The booting up is a lot faster now. Now it takes about 13 seconds to get to the logon screen after I press the power button. I'm happy with this. Thanks to everyone who helped.

here's the boot trace, couldn't get it without that error

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When I take trace now, it' dropping events. What to do?

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In the meantime, I'm downloading the 1703 version, if everything fails that is my last resort.

Here it is

www.transfernow.net/202or1h1yyb1

Do you need only the .etl file or the .cab file as well. BTW, is this the file?

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I tried your method and it completed. But I don't see any sign of improvement over what happened before. Should I try turning on fast boot?

I'm planning to run it overnight. Is there any way to bypass the login so that i don't have to login after every restart and the process continues without any need of me. I'm logged in with my...

It took over an hour in preparing system step in the second run so I cancelled. If it fixed that guys laptop, I can try it. BTW, there has been a significant improvement, not the boot but the general...

I've already uninstalled Bitdefender. I only installed it to scan my computer to check if there are any malwares.

It's stuck at Preparing System in the second run. Don't know how to end it.

I found many threads showing that it is a widespread issue related to the 1709 CU. I guess I'll just have to wait for my manufacturer to update the drivers on the product page. Only then I will get...

Here is the log
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I also think the same. Thanks for giving your time to help me out.

The problem is that I have scanned my system with many trusted softwares including Malwarebytes. Bitdefender was also installed for the same reason. I only prefer to use Windows Defender. No threats...

I guess I have a fairly good system that shouldn't see slowdowns. I have seen many systems with Pentium mobile chipsets, no dedicated graphics and low memory running on the latest update smoothly. I...

The password is holyshit123. BTW, I am a new member so I'm not allowed to send PMs right now. The site says that I need to be a member for at least 4 days.

Here's the report,

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My drive passed the scan.

Booting in Safe Mode does not resolve the issue. It is a bit slow even in the Safe Mode.

I downloaded it using the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft.

I backed up all my data from other local...

I already have the latest drivers from my manufacturer. I even tried to get latest drivers using driver booster in a previous installation but that didn't work out. Here is the link for the boot...

The normal usage was fast (not as fast as that of any other clean install) but boot time was the same. After installing few apps necessary apps the response time was unaffected for a few days. But...

I tried this already, but this shows up.
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I recently bought a new laptop, Acer E5-575G with good specs. It has an Intel i5 7200U, 4GB of RAM, 2GB Nvidia 940MX and 1TB hard drive. It came with DOS pre-installed so I had to install Windows 10...