Windows 7 64bit Suddenly slow Startup after Booting

[safo]

Hello everyone, first post here..

I'm having this issue that I can't seem to troubleshoot in anyway..

My Windows 7 is installed on an SSD, so booting takes like 8-12 seconds as usual. After successfully booting and entering windows, I only see the taskbar with nothing else initialized.
All my startup applications take like 2 minutes to load then I hear the USB sound followed by everything starting up (Rainmeter, Steam, Skype, Airdroid, etc.) why is this happening? Mind you this hasn't happened for the past 2 years of usage, this suddenly happened out of nowhere.

I tried booting in safe mode it was flawless, I also tried unplugging all my USB devices but that didn't help.

The only solution I reached now is to do a fresh install of windows 7, unless anyone knows whats going on with it..

please help, and thanks in advance

 

[ktolo]

Have you installed anything dodgy lately? How about new drivers? Do you know how to look in event viewer for evidence of a service or application that is slow to start?
Do you have up to date virus/malware scanners?
depending on what you recently did.. it could be a newly installed (or newly updated with a sh*tty update) program.. or a service is hanging on startup.. or a virus.

 

[safo]

Have you installed anything dodgy lately? How about new drivers? Do you know how to look in event viewer for evidence of a service or application that is slow to start?
Do you have up to date virus/malware scanners?
depending on what you recently did.. it could be a newly installed (or newly updated with a sh*tty update) program.. or a service is hanging on startup.. or a virus.

Well for one thing I have 2 suspicions:

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  ■ I updated my nvidia drivers recently, however I did a rollback to before installing the updates and it still occurs.
  
  ■ Second suspicion is I used my friends external hard drive to copy something, after that usage I felt sluggishness in my startup (before it took 8 seconds, now 2mins to initialize everything), however I have Malwarebytes + MSE + USB Fix to keep me protected from any viruses. Another plus for that is his PC has the same issue so it could be it (faulty external hard disk or something?).
  
  Maybe theres a way to uninstall the driver his USB installed on my PC? because windows is only hanging for 2mins after boot till I hear the sound when you insert a USB device which is followed by everything launching all together (skype, steam etc..)
  
  Would need some advice how to view the event log. I used Soluto but it didn't help (it said MSE was taking 30 seconds to launch, I uninstalled that and the problem persisted)

 

[ktolo]

Interesting that you mention your friends pc has the same problem. Removable drives usually don't install their own driver, they use a windows one.. although it does look like it's installing one, it's just figuring out what the device is and if it can use the MS driver. So, when you remove the drive anything used by it should be gone.
If the drive is no longer plugged in to your PC - then that should be eliminated from the equation.
Is the external drive still plugged in? Does this only happen when it is present or ever since it's one-time use?

I updated my nvidia drivers recently, however I did a rollback to before installing the updates and it still occurs. <- Did the problem happen before or after you did this? Was the problem already present when you updated + rolled back?

I'd try disabling MSE and USB Fix, update MWB and do a full scan. Also give this a go... it has helped me fix things MWB has missed in the past!
https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/

I'm almost 100% the problem is either a program/virus or service..

RE: Windows event viewer.. have a quick loon in control panel, manage my computer, event viewer.. look in the windows log and application log.

 

[safo]

Interesting that you mention your friends pc has the same problem. Removable drives usually don't install their own driver, they use a windows one.. although it does look like it's installing one, it's just figuring out what the device is and if it can use the MS driver. So, when you remove the drive anything used by it should be gone.
If the drive is no longer plugged in to your PC - then that should be eliminated from the equation.
Is the external drive still plugged in? Does this only happen when it is present or ever since it's one-time use?

No, as I mentioned before I tried booting without any USBs plugged in and the problem persisted

I updated my nvidia drivers recently, however I did a rollback to before installing the updates and it still occurs. <- Did the problem happen before or after you did this? Was the problem already present when you updated + rolled back?

would say it happened after the updates, but then I did a rollback to before the update and it still happened

I'd try disabling MSE and USB Fix, update MWB and do a full scan. Also give this a go... it has helped me fix things MWB has missed in the past!
https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/

I'm almost 100% the problem is either a program/virus or service..

RE: Windows event viewer.. have a quick loon in control panel, manage my computer, event viewer.. look in the windows log and application log.

did a scan, cleaned up some registries, no malicious files found

heres a quick look if you want to know whats happening, remains like this for 2 minutes after 7 second boot time:
http://imgur.com/AfuOZcI

 

[ktolo]

Hpm.. you could try the good old msconfig from run menu.. then disable any services or startup programs that you know you don't need. Trial and error this way, i'm afraid until you find the culprit.

 

[safo]

Hpm.. you could try the good old msconfig from run menu.. then disable any services or startup programs that you know you don't need. Trial and error this way, i'm afraid until you find the culprit.

im 90% sure its a usb device driver issue, if so is there any way to "clean" the installed drivers?

 

[safo]

Hpm.. you could try the good old msconfig from run menu.. then disable any services or startup programs that you know you don't need. Trial and error this way, i'm afraid until you find the culprit.

Found it! it was the latest nvidia driver update, I literally disabled everything and turns out it was the GeForce Experience + Driver update

thanks for your time ktolo

 

[Urbaniak]

safo: I think I may have the same problem, except I have almost no computer skills. Can you let me know what you did to correct the problem? i.e. the steps. Thanks so much.

Hpm.. you could try the good old msconfig from run menu.. then disable any services or startup programs that you know you don't need. Trial and error this way, i'm afraid until you find the culprit.

Found it! it was the latest nvidia driver update, I literally disabled everything and turns out it was the GeForce Experience + Driver update

thanks for your time ktolo