Windows sits on the “Please Wait” screen for a long time during boot

windows 7

I have a PC running a clean installation of Windows 7. I have noticed that Windows takes a very long time on the "Please Wait" screen during boot. I have cleared the startup list and also all of the startup items from Windows registry.

I have also tried several suggestions that I've found on internet like disabling the Network Locations awareness, etc, but nothing is improving the situation.

Of course in safe mode, everything works fine.

Event 100 details:

<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2015-03-23T02:24:35.702800300Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2015-03-23T02:27:38.254320900Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">107</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">106</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">123699</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">91799</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">24</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">10974</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">191</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">34898</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">248291328</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">20424</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">3107</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">41154</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">1</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">4843</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">1</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">31900</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">2653</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">24</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">485</Data>
<Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">1804</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">2262</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">10681</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">12970</Data>
<Data Name="Session0InitDuration">1340</Data>
<Data Name="Session1InitDuration">712</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">18371</Data>
<Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">33395</Data>
<Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">12405</Data>
<Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">2932</Data>

Does anybody have any ideas?

Best Answer

Go back to Event 100 and click on the details tab (see pictures below). Then copy what you have there. It should look something like this:

    BootStartTime   2015-03-22T15:48:46.687200300Z
    BootEndTime 2015-03-22T15:51:15.516575500Z
    SystemBootInstance  1147
    UserBootInstance    1128
    BootTime    20690
    MainPathBootTime    9490
    BootKernelInitTime  19
    BootDriverInitTime  290
    BootDevicesInitTime 874
    BootPrefetchInitTime    0
    BootPrefetchBytes   0
    BootAutoChkTime 0
    BootSmssInitTime    5942
    BootCriticalServicesInitTime    334
    BootUserProfileProcessingTime   763
    BootMachineProfileProcessingTime    1
    BootExplorerInitTime    531
    BootNumStartupApps  9
    BootPostBootTime    11200
    BootIsRebootAfterInstall    false
    BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits    0
    BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
    BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits    0
    BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
    BootIsDegradation   false
    BootIsStepDegradation   false
    BootIsGradualDegradation    false
    BootImprovementDelta    0
    BootDegradationDelta    0
    BootIsRootCauseIdentified   false
    OSLoaderDuration    1882
    BootPNPInitStartTimeMS  19
    BootPNPInitDuration 898
    OtherKernelInitDuration 389
    SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS    1281
    SystemPNPInitDuration   266
    SessionInitStartTimeMS  1554
    Session0InitDuration    2547
    Session1InitDuration    281
    SessionInitOtherDuration    3113
    WinLogonStartTimeMS 7497
    OtherLogonInitActivityDuration  698
    UserLogonWaitDuration   176

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