Why is my boot-up so extremely slow on Windows 7 Ultimate?

Raw boot time now is 133 seconds (the first 100-value in the event list). Earlier raw boot times: 119, 111, 134, 115, 174, 96, 121, 81, 64, 72, 82, 73, 108, 130, 183, 116, ...

Real life boot time now is 76 seconds.

You can see on this screencast that there are many warnings, error and about 10 critical boot performance issues:

http://screencast.com/t/bgUaaEn4zVDI

About 70 % of the whole list is made up of boot performance issues.

Here are my startup items in msconfig:

http://screencast.com/t/xXCEFPZbF2P
http://screencast.com/t/e8KtxExNU
http://screencast.com/t/kFakfe8Ra
http://screencast.com/t/NntZcAlIn

I really can't see any more items I can remove from msconfig. I installed a lot of software during a few hours, and this problem with extremely long startup time started immediately after that, so probably it's one of these newly installed software that is causing this. I updated everything half a day earlier so that can't be causing this.

But the boot time is much much longer than in the link http://itexpertvoice.com/home/what%E2%80%99s-taking-so-long-how-to-fight-slow-startup-times-in-windows-7/

And they say it's a problem if the boot time takes up to two minutes (which it does in my case, even longer!).

SSD-disk? Instead of the internal HDD?

Otherwise, can the last posting on Microsoft TechNet be of any help for me?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/3596b55e-e21d-4185-95a3-8c4503987910

jcimarron,

I just followed your fourth step with checking all the startup items. Two of them have been labelled as being added by TROJANS! But my Windows is completely new installed! How is it possible!? The first thing after having installed Windows was to install Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes PRO. And run all updates. And I have not visited any dubious or risky websites. How can then, already, two TROJANS added these startup items?:

IDT PC Audio
QTTask

And what should I do now? I run a full scan with Malwarebytes PRO during the night which didn't find anything. Haven't done any image with Acronis TrueImage Home 2012 yet. Should I do that anyway, after I found these two infected startup items in msconfig? Perhaps run Combofix first. Or should I do a new system recovery?

Actually, I did a download and install of QuickTime yesterday because it was needed to see a video about a financial software I was thinking of buying. Couldn't view that video without first installing QuickTime. Think it was this website:

http://www.merrilledge.com/m/pages/Trade-On-Your-Own.aspx?cm_sp=GWM-SelfDirectedBrokerage-_-EdgeRHModule-_-G216LT0020_ME-RH_ME_RHmodule_Trade_On_Your_Own_PhaseII.jpg-_-TradeOnYourOwn

When I didn't have QuickTime installed, I was prompted to download and install that first (which I did).

(By the way, I'm not going for this software, it got bad reviews.)

I could see now that Microsoft Security Essentials had found 2 Trojans:

http://screencast.com/t/AQKkOmQmu6lp

So my laptop evidentially got infected immediately after I recovered it, in spite of I was really cautious and took everything step-by-step (first install Malwarebytes and MSE, then run updates etc.). And never visited any risky websites. But it's possible I got the infection when I downloaded the QuickTime-player as the QTTask had been added to msconfig (which is added by Trojans). And also, it was after this installation that the bootup became so extremely slow (although Windows, after bootup, works perfect without any problems).

I think I didn't download directly from Apple but via a Merrill Edge subsite (not the main www.merrilledge.com, but from something that didn't start with www). I let MSE clean the two Trojans and actually the bootup is faster now, although not especially fast. Absolutely no other problems except a little slow bootup (but not much, not like earlier now that I unticked a lot, perhaps 10 or more, items in the msconfig also).

How should I deal with these 2 startup-items (Trojans) that are still present in msconfig?
Would this work?:

1. I first wipe (use a file shredder) the two startup-items: QTTask and IDT PC Audio.
2. I then uninstall QuickTime from Control Panel (remove programs).
3. And then I reinstall QuickTime from Apple's site only.

hi jcimarron,

I haven't tried your other suggestions yet, just finished a translation job. Will make an Acronis-image right away now because the system seems to be very OK now. I chose to let MSE delete the two Trojans.

I unchecked a lot of items in msconfig with help from the search-service for msconfig you gave me the link to. After I've done that, and had the Trojans removed, the bootup time is acceptable.

So after I've done the Acronis-image I'll continue to try your other suggestions also. If anything happens I will have the Acronis-image to revert to a quite well functioning OS now.

hermesalpha--"because the system seems to be very OK now"
That is good news.

Thanks, I received three very good solutions: Look for Warnings and Critical errors in Event Viewer, change HDD and use SSD instead, and a combination of suggestions for a slow-booting PC from jcimarron.

Now that I disconnected my two external HDDs (each on 250 GB) during bootup, the bootup time is really down to normal again. So problem is solved!

hermesalpha--You are welcome.