Windows 11 Lengthy Boot

OMG - after uninstalling Acronis as noted above the problem went away. But after I rebooted the issue came back. I've verified that no Acronis processes are running. Completely at a loss, but my plan is now that it's uninstalled and I've eliminated it as a cause I will go through the instructions in your link once again and we'll go from there. What a pain this is! I'll report back.

Ok after the Acronis product was uninstalled the problem went away. So - I'll contact their technical support and leave it uninstalled. Since I have Windows Defender on and Malwarebytes I'm well protected. I was also using the product for backup but that doesn't work anymore anyway to I will leave it uninstalled. I remember uninstalling it as part of this troubleshooting process last week, and the problem persisted/ But perhaps it did not uninstall correctly. These applications will low level persistent processes can be difficult to eliminate.

Thanks so much for your help.

New information. The Acronis Cyber Protection service is running. I can't kill it in Task Manager. And when Disable all in msconfig, it will not disable that process. So this could be the problem. It makes sense that a low level process like this that's responsible for security would kick off a process every so often to scan etc. And would not allow itself to be canceled.

I think my only option is to uninstall this software. However, I have done this previously and the problem persisted. I'll try it again though and follow the steps again in the link and report back.

Ok I followed the instructions exactly as provided in the link above and the problem persists. So there's something difference between the Clean Boot with everything disabled and the Diagnostic boot with only basic services and startup apps. With the first the problem persists, the second it goes away. This indicates that the process that is responsible is a Microsoft service or app that's part of the core of Windows. I verified that all third party processes were disabled.

I'm wondering if the Process Explorer avenue would help.

Ok I will do this. I have a question about that before I start . If I’ve done the msconfig Diagnostic boot with only basic MS services and startup apps and that eliminated the problem, I would think I would have eliminated my installed third party startup apps as the culprit and that it must be an MS process.. But maybe there’s a difference with the Clean Boot technique I’m not seeing. I will do it anyway but just wanting to know what the difference is aside from hiding the MS services.

Also did you see anything interesting in the Process Explorer information I provided? I’m only asking because Auggie was headed down that path of identifying what process gets kicked every 73 seconds.

Thanks again for sticking with this. It’s driving me crazy!!