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Ok, just tried rebooting with nic disabled, same delay unfortunately.

Well that is unfortunate. Nothing I can do about the dcomlaunch causing the delay now? No changes, only thing diff is the storm I mentioned above. Well I do appreciate you trying though. Thanks a bunch. Running the first script still shows rpcss as the cause but I guess the other ones ya had me run go deeper into the rpcss?

What about the dcomlaunch svchost (844) I see that takes about the same amount of time i am on that black window with a mouse cursor? My boot time log details has this: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance Date: 5/23/2015 8:21:34 AM Event ID: 100 Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring Level: Warning Keywords: Event Log User: LOCAL SERVICE Computer: Admin-PC Description: Windows has started up: Boot Duration : 78019ms IsDegradation : false Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎05‎-‎23T13:19:06.578000100Z Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" /> <EventID>100</EventID> <Version>2</Version> <Level>3</Level> <Task>4002</Task> <Opcode>34</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-05-23T13:21:34.289551000Z" /> <EventRecordID>2347</EventRecordID> <Correlation ActivityID="{02EB6C40-F800-0000-2433-C50B5B95D001}" /> <Execution ProcessID="1588" ThreadID="3744" /> <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel> <Computer>Admin-PC</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data> <Data Name="BootStartTime">2015-05-23T13:19:06.578000100Z</Data> <Data Name="BootEndTime">2015-05-23T13:21:31.838410800Z</Data> <Data Name="SystemBootInstance">114</Data> <Data Name="UserBootInstance">111</Data> <Data Name="BootTime">78019</Data> <Data Name="MainPathBootTime">49819</Data> <Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">40</Data> <Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">519</Data> <Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">697</Data> <Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data> <Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data> <Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data> <Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">4005</Data> <Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">40736</Data> <Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">230</Data> <Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">3</Data> <Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">965</Data> <Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">10</Data> <Data Name="BootPostBootTime">28200</Data> <Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data> <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data> <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data> <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data> <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data> <Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data> <Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data> <Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data> <Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data> <Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data> <Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data> <Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">579</Data> <Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">40</Data> <Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">937</Data> <Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">201</Data> <Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">1132</Data> <Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">279</Data> <Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">1418</Data> <Data Name="Session0InitDuration">2511</Data> <Data Name="Session1InitDuration">383</Data> <Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">1110</Data> <Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">5423</Data> <Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">43196</Data> <Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">5537</Data> </EventData> </Event> Do those times above help in determining what is causing the delay? No changes that I know of. I 'think' it started right after we ha d thunder storm go by, power to the house would go out and come right back on, Happened about 4 or 5 times in 10-15 minutes. Computer was on each time.

Ok, sent ya the 3rd ETL, Again, really appreciate you taking the with this, been driving me batty trying to find and fix the cause.

I did have autologin enabled but the delay is the same with it turned off, I sent you another etl with autologin turned off Its pretty much 45 seconds from when 'Starting windows' disappears to when the login screen shows up. w7 is on a SSD.

Applied the hotfix and after the prompted reboot it looked p[romising, however, after a subsequent reboot, the issue still persists. I have sent you the 2nd compressed ETL file.

Done thanks

MagicAndre, thanks a ton for this tutorial. I have been having issues with the delay in boot right after windows splash, before the login screen, lastas apporx 45 secs. I have an ssd so this is bothersom for me. it ha sonly recently started. Using your tutorial I think I was able to trace the issue to the winlogininit section and specifcally the rpcss service, Howver, I am unable to get my graph layout to the easy to read one you show with your screen shots. I like the layout of those. Could you take alook at my xml and etl file and tell me what you think? I can post here or pm it to you. Thanks again.