Windows 11 Lengthy Boot

That's interesting, Brian.

Keep me posted on your progress as I will be here to help until the case is resolved.

Thanks Greg. A break will be good, I used to be a Systems Programmer for a large IBM mainframe with 2500 users, 911, police and fire, with all applications for two cities, a county and intergovernmental agencies. When the system went down is was a crisis - that was my responsibility to fix. Very stressful and complex.

While this problem only affects me, it’s been way more complex, time consuming and frustrating than anything I experienced in my job. My prediction in 1985 - “PCs will never replace these centralized large systems. Too many moving parts, too complex to maintain, too hard to manage and control.” First sentence- wrong!! Second sentence- yeah.

Brian, take all the time you need and resist the urge to work when you're tired from it, because that will work against you. It's always more important to be fresh and work at a slower pace than to rush.

I will be here as long as it takes to help you get it sorted out to your satisfaction, after that you can always ask for me if you need to.

Btw a power up boot takes about 10 seconds instead of 45 so that’s good. Also after the upgrade to Windows 11 a shutdown would not power down the system, nor would the power button. I had to toggle the power supply power switch. Now that’s working as it should. Several other undesirable application startup behaviors introduced with W11 are now fixed too. Small change compared to my other issue but welcome nonetheless.

You may have additional questions regarding my msconfig related troubleshooting. I do too as I don’t think I completely understood the ramifications of various combinations of the use of that program in combination with the startup apps. I’m going to take a stab at it again which will take a while especially since I need to clear my foggy brain before I tackle this again. But feel free to ask additional questions or make suggestions in the meantime and I’ll respond when able. Again I appreciate your time - I know you’re a volunteer and this is pretty demanding.

Sure - but does it hurt anything? I'm not inclined to make any changes at this point that are not directly in service of troubleshooting this issue. I don't want to have to fix something else in the middle of this. And disabling those services as part of the process of elimination didn't fix the problem.