I just upgraded from windows 7 to windows 8 and everything is working fine except notepad keeps opening on boot with a "access denied" window that comes up as well. I've ran MBAM and removed some junk, I've disabled every "file not found" item in autoruns as well as something that had a text/xml title in it and I've ran CCleaner a few times. Nothing is working, any help is much appreciated!
Windows 8 opens notepad on boot- no startup entry found
notepadwindows 8
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ok, I looked at the trace and found that the ProfileService takes 281s to start:
<serviceTransition name="ProfSvc" group="ProfSvc_Group" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="281174"
I can also see that the HDD is busy loading the file C:\Windows\Fonts\KozMinPro-ExtraLight.otf This takes 312s and causes the WinLogon.exe slwdown. Remove this font and look if you get a faster boot. If not, provide a new trace.
This has been solved finally. The issue is simply a matter of case-sensitivity. I formatted the xml document using Visual Studio to get proper indentation, and didn't notice that it changed say from <CopyProfile> to <copyprofile>. I then updated the case as per another sample file, and it worked. The working unattend.xml is copied below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.micro...fig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/20...hema-instance">
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
<DoNotCleanTaskBar>true</DoNotCleanTaskBar>
<RegisteredOrganization>XXXXXXXXX</RegisteredOrganization>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.micro...fig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/20...hema-instance">
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
<DoNotCleanTaskBar>true</DoNotCleanTaskBar>
<RegisteredOrganization>XXXXXXXXX</RegisteredOrganization>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="windowsPE">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.micro...fig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/20...hema-instance">
<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/users/tech/desktop/install.wim#Windows 8 Pro" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
Please note that the offlineImage does not actually need to match an actual file it seems. I don't know exactly why this is needed.
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It was the desktop.ini file in the startup folder- deleting that cleared it up