[SOLVED] Windows boot time increased.

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PratHat

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So it has been like 2 weeks after I built my pc. At first windows booted in like 10 seconds but now for the last few days it has been taking like 20 seconds to boot. Any ideas to fix it?
 
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Valorant slowing down boot... well, it causes all sorts of errors but it would be a first. Its mainly an anti cheat engine, I would be surprised.

Every time i run driver view it never shows me dates, I wish my system was like yours lol.
rgb drivers getting old but there might not be a newer version of it. Nothing you can do about it anyway.

Nothing obvious jumps out at me on system
it used to cause BSOD, its how I found out about it and knew what vgk.sys was without looking it up.
I didn't know it would stop files running. when the game isn't. Who owns this pc? The game or you? Is it that good that you are willing to let it boss you around?
I haven't looked at game, I can assume since its so popular its not the sort of game I play.
 
Exactly. Is so aggressive and deep rooted, it's worse than Norton ever was. But the point remains, the code is in place to prevent hackers from adding to or changing Valorant code. The game itself looks for the Vanguard On status, and without it, the game doesn't play.

It basically decrees it needs a sledgehammer to kill the fly, covering any size or type of fly or bee or wasp ..

The bsods were most likely the result of Vanguard preventing files being loaded, even system files, since hackers are really fond of using start.exe and other common usage types in an attempt to load virus, malware etc or malicious/cheat code.

You quarantine 'C:/xstart.x' etc, you kill half the pc.