windows 11 slow boot - winlogon takes a lot of time


shura30

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of course I ask the help of @zinou,
This is a clean install of windows 11, I am wasting a lot of time at boot on a rig that shouldn't have issues in general let alone at the logon screen
I've tried to analyze the .etl file but I can't understand what's causing the issue so I'm here asking for help

 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
I found the problem for me was one of my hard drives attached by USB to my PC. Remove any USB devices one at a time to see if one is playing up. Going to try the drive in a new enclosure to see if that fixes it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Stormforce Prism RTX 3070
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    Asus AMD TUF Gaming X570-Plus ATX Motherboard – Aura Sync RGB
    Memory
    16GB DDR4
    Graphics Card(s)
    RTX 3070
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung U32H850UMU 32 inch 4K
    Screen Resolution
    3840x2160
    Hard Drives
    1 x M2.2
    1x M2.1
    5 x HDD
    Cooling
    Cooler Master 120L AIO Watercooler
    Keyboard
    Rii wireless
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    Generic cable
    Internet Speed
    320Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox & Chrome
    Antivirus
    Norton
I found the problem for me was one of my hard drives attached by USB to my PC. Remove any USB devices one at a time to see if one is playing up. Going to try the drive in a new enclosure to see if that fixes it.
I don't use usb drives, only ssd, also no disc activity in the .etl
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
Do you mean at the login screen or from boot up generally? On my unsupported 10" netbook (!) I find it boots to login extremely quickly but hangs at the login screen for some time until entering the desktop. I'm putting that down to it being unsupported hardware basically - an atom processor and only 2gb ram - so I don't mind. On the core i7 5th generation uefi laptop (8gb ram) everything is very fast at boot up and login.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 14-ce3514sa
    CPU
    Core i5
    Memory
    16gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB
    Cooling
    Could be better
    Internet Speed
    200mbps Starlink
    Browser
    Firefox
    Other Info
    Originally installed with a 500gb H10 Optane ssd
of course I ask the help of @zinou,
This is a clean install of windows 11, I am wasting a lot of time at boot on a rig that shouldn't have issues in general let alone at the logon screen
I've tried to analyze the .etl file but I can't understand what's causing the issue so I'm here asking for help

Hi

when say it takes a lot of time, it's 1 min, 2 or more?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
Hi

when say it takes a lot of time, it's 1 min, 2 or more?
it's roughly one minute, I can see the 45 seconds for the winlogon init but I'm unable to follow the stack to something useful
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
So you notice that the delay occurs after the logon?
I can see 43s of delay after you enter your credentials. is this where the delay occurs?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
So you notice that the delay occurs after the logon?
I can see 43s of delay after you enter your credentials. is this where the delay occurs?
the account is set for autologin, I disabled windows hello and used the old control userpasswords2 method, it's a microsoft account.

I only get to see the login animation with the spinning circle for something around those 45 seconds before the desktop appears
the stack tells me nothing
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and that svchost.exe(4736) even less:

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
My guess is that the issue is may be related to the network.

Are you using a Microsoft account to log in ?
Have you tried to log in with a local account and see if it's faster?

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
I saw that you mentioned in your previous post that you are using a Microsoft account;
So yeah, create a local user account and log in with that account and see the difference.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
I saw that you mentioned in your previous post that you are using a Microsoft account;
So yeah, create a local user account and log in with that account and see the difference.
just tested it this way:

- after creating a new local user (without deleting the ms account, can't do that now for various reasons) . Removed autologins and rebooted, blackscreen until the login prompt but after picking the user (whether it was the ms account or not) desktop came almost immediately
- set autologin for the local user, no changes still slow

created another .etl in this scenario and it's almost identical to the one I've already posted.

can you group CPU usage time by 'timeline by process, thread' ?
does it give you some insight?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
- after creating a new local user (without deleting the ms account, can't do that now for various reasons) . Removed autologins and rebooted, blackscreen until the login prompt but after picking the user (wdsdhether it was the ms account or not) desktop came almost immediately

If I do understand; when you disable the autologin the boot is faster?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
If I do understand; when you disable the autologin the boot is faster?
it's faster only after the prompt appears on screen
before that it's just a black screen for those 45 seconds
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
it's faster only after the prompt appears on screen
before that it's just a black screen for those 45 seconds
Can you take a boot trace, while disabling the autologin? it may give us another perspective!

Check the "Network IO activity and the Registry activity"

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
I Do not see anything interesting in the network or the registry graphs!

what I suspect is the graphic card driver, for two reasons;
You said that you see a black screen during the login => There was similar cases were the graphic card was the culprit.

during the waiting period, I notice the dwm.exe (Desktop Window Manager) process running => dwm is the process that renders the desktop.

I think your AMD Radeon driver is at the latest version, so no update is possible for now!

what you could test to prove this theory, is to restart in the safe mode and see if the login takes the same time!

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16
You said that you see a black screen during the login => There was similar cases were the graphic card was the culprit.
happened only a few times without autologin. with it enabled I can see the spinning wheel for the whole delay
anyways, today amd and microsoft released a couple patches to fix some bugs with amd products, so far I'm booting straight to desktop without issues..only booted up twice today, I'll keep it under observation and report
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 11
anyways, today amd and microsoft released a couple patches to fix some bugs with amd products
is it a fix for the graphic card driver?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Memory
    16

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