Start-up delays between the Windows startup and the logon screen

I have two PC's that have essentially the same Intel motherboard, but with different form factors. The smallest has a less powerful CPU and a slower hard drive. Still more has a significant delay between displaying the logon screen and Windows startup. Between the two, the display shows a cursor that cannot be moved through the mouse for 30 seconds or more, while on the smaller than the slider shows only for about a second.

I realize, the problem could be many things, but I'm guessing that material or a device sound driver. I watched the event logs, but I couldn't see anything strange. I expected to see a "CPU does not ' or"USB 3.0 controller has a hardware problem"kind of thing. I ran Intel IPDT but he did not find a problem. Device Manager displays all of the problems. There is no graphics card on a system. I unplugged the USB cable to the printer, but that did nothing. No games are installed on a system. Nothing seems to be overheating. There is no network drive. All drives are SATA and BIOS is set to AHCI.

Someone at - it the words of wisdom about what should I look for in the event logs?

If it were my system:

  1. I'd be more suspicious of malware, run ADWcleaner and have a good antivirus program
  2. I would use the manufacturer of my disk drive hard testing program to ensure that it is not a failure
  3. I would like to be sure that none of the drives are more than 75% in use
  4. I would check my memory using the auditor memory Windows 7
  5. I would like to install and run Autoruns to check what is in the startup process
  6. AND, above all, focus on the applications installed.  Some of them are notorious resource hogs who insist on running at startup.
  7. Remove Programs/applications from starting unless I really need to start

Common unbelievers that cause slow-start ups:

  • Garmin Express
  • Skype
  • uTorrent
  • FrostWire
  • Trusteer

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