Hi, Steviep!
Welcome back! I've never been to Prague, but heard only good comments about it.
Some things to have in mind now:
The purpose of booting in a clean environment (all the services disabled) is to see if one or more of these services or start-up items conflict with the computer's start-up.
In your previous post (before Prague ), you said that when performed a clean boot, the computer logged in much quicker than before. Now you say that it took it more than 5 minutes.
So, let's make sure that things are done correctly:
1. Turn the computer on. When it logged in Windows, it will be in a clean boot environment. Your computer might temporarily lose some functionality while in a clean boot environment. If the computer starts up faster than usual, then go to the next step:
2. Make sure to do the following exactly as described, and with the same order:
- In the search box on the taskbar, type msconfig and select System Configuration from the results.
- On the Services tab of System Configuration, select Hide all Microsoft services, and then select Disable all. If they are already disabled, go to the next step.
- On the Startup tab of System Configuration, select Open Task Manager.
- Under Startup in Task Manager, for each startup item, select the item and then select Disable. If the items are already disabled, go to the next step.
- Close Task Manager.
- On the Services tab of System Configuration, check the upper half of the unchecked entries and restart the computer.
- If the problem reappears, uncheck one entry and restart the computer. Check if the slowness goes away. Repeat this as necessary.
- If the problem does not reappear, check one more entry from the unchecked ones, and restart the computer. Check if the slowness returns. Repeat this as necessary.
It is important to check or uncheck one service at a time, so we will understand which of them is causing the problem. If you enable or disable all at once, there is no way to realize which one is causing the problem. I know that the procedure is a bit frustrating, but it will help us to ... help your computer.
- In your next reply, list the names of the service(s) causing the issue when enabled.