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At first I thought it was the Spy Hunter program because Task Manager showed it using a significant amount of resources during that time. But I uninstalled Spy Hunter and the delay is exactly the same. Task Manager does not show any large use of resources now.
What could be causing this delay?
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The command
winver
will tell you the version.
if no better, boot safe mode as shown here






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I booted in Safe Mode, and the desktop came up in a much shorter time without the delay.
The next step logically is to find out what is the difference between safe mode and normal mode. In normal mode, all drivers are loaded - not in safe mode, there, only a basic set of drivers is loaded.
In safe mode, neither are all services loaded.
So it seems, it's either a driver or service causing the problem. To come closer, do the following: start msconfig (via winkey+r) and disable all non-microsoft services and reboot.

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I downloaded Autoruns and began disabling a few selected individual items. With no initial success in finding the cause of the delay, I then begain looking at entire groups as selectable from the menu bar. I disabled all from the drivers, Task Scheduler, codecs, Winlogon, Logon, Explorer, and Internet Explorer groups one group at a time. I assumed we already covered the Services group when we disabled all non-Microsoft services in msconfig.
When I disabled all in the Drivers group, the computer would not reboot (boot device not found). I recovered from that and disabled all non-disk related drivers in the Drivers group. None of these disabled groups was shown to be the cause of the problem. The disk-related drivers are still untested, but I am hesitant to cause the boot problem again.
I could not discern what in the disk-related drivers may have caused the boot failure problem. Is there a way to determine this? Any other ideas on how to proceed?
I really appreciate your help.
What I'd do: there's a column "publisher". Look at all the 3rd party stuff and disable those, leaving only the microsoft stuff in and the basic drivers.






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At this point, Windows 10 is operating well and the computer is running fine.
I greatly appreciated your help, and you introduced me to the Autoruns tool that gave me a great deal of information regarding my problem. It will be great tool to use in the future.
Thanks again for your help.
One more thing to learn: before we reinstall, there's always the inplace upgrade
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