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Long delay between Win Vista Login screen and desktop


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Starting a few weeks ago the time between my Windows Vista login screen where I enter my password, and the desktop can take up to 2 minutes. I have not installed any additional software in that time. The only thing I have enabled in the start menu is Microsoft Security Essentials, I ran a scan and no virus or malware was found.I am running Vista 32bit and have 2GB of ram installed. I also have a very clean system, all bloatware removed. Once it boots into the desktop everything is fine but I am stumped as to why the long delay between the login screen and the time the desktop comes up.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Try reducing the amount of Startup items:

Click Start, type: msconfig

Hit Enter on your keyboard

Go to the Startup tab

Uncheck any non-essential items that you don't need on startup.

Also, make sure your desktop is clean too, if you store large files there such as .png images, .ISO files or any type of files, try moving them to a shell folder such Documents.

You should also try doing a disk clean up, delete older system restore points

Make sure that drivers such as video, network, audio, printer are all updated.

If you have a thumb drive plugged in or an external storage device attached to the system on startup, disconnect them. In fact, disconnect all non-essential devices.

If you have any old files you are rarely referencing such as old documents, music files or videos, consider archiving them and move them to an external hard disk.

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Under msconfig startup only MSE is checked. All drivers are up to date, I'm even running in classic theme so Aero is disabled.

I will check the events log to see what might be hanging.

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