Windows 11 Lengthy Boot

Is there ethernet driver bloatware (driver software package) installed? Check in Settings > Apps > Apps & Features and uninstall it, reinstall only the driver.

For ethernet causing freezing in Windows try these fixes:

https://www.lifewire.com/fix-ethernet-driver-pr...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/x...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/freeze-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/l...

https://www.howtoedge.com/fix-ethernet-driver-i...

Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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I did install the updated driver for my realtek gbe controller . Problem persists. . And I checked for bloatware - nothing there. I also ran through the other links you provided (thank you) and either it's not pertinent to this situation, or I've done it already.

Here's a screenshot from TM during the event with one of my simulators running - which is what is generating the bit of network traffic. You can see the GPU spiking downward at the same time the Ethernet utilization is changing. You can't see what's happening with the CPU because everything there that's pertinent is at the thread level. But I've described the spike up in several threads already.

You can see that the spike up in 'receive' starts a bit prior to the downward spike in 'send'. And that the graph shows that the initial down and up spikes lines are overlaying each other - occurring simultaneously. Meaning one is probably affecting the other or are interrelated in some way.

There are good guides for using Process Monitor and doing a Boot Trace here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007...

https://illuminati.services/2021/03/10/how-to-c... (work the same for Windows 11)

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I updated the ethernet driver, and checked for bloatware - nothing there. I also looked at the links you provided and they are either not pertinent to this situation or I've done them already.

In looking at the Ethernet utilization on TM I noticed an interesting pattern as shown below. The downward spike of send and the upward spike of receive overlap. Also you can see the spike downward in GPU simultaneously and that the upward spike in receive happens just prior to that. Hard to know what is cause and effect, and I can't determine the exact sequence and timing of the various pieces we're observed; cpu threads spikes up, GPU down, Ethernet both. If we could get exact timing we might find out more about the cause and effect piece.

So we have a lot of observation