windows 7 "welcome screen" slow

[Red Squirrel]

When I login, it stays at the welcome screen for a good minute or so. I thought it was maybe my login script, but I disabled it, and it's still slow. I read that if you have a solid background it will be slow, but I have a jpg image.

Anything else I could check? At least with previous versions of windows you could easily tell what stage was slow, but now it just says welcome. Is there some kind of debug mode I can go in to see what's going on? I have a Core i7 PC with 12GB of ram, SSD, 2 GTX 560 video cards in SLI... not a slow machine. It's done this since the start (had it for maybe a month) and I really hope to figure out why it's so slow.

If I can speed up this process I can start shutting down my PC at night, since other than that it takes like 10 seconds to boot up.

 

[Ketchup]

Just a shot in the dark but are you running wifi? I don't know of any debugging programs other than using msconfig/ checking drivers/ etc.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nope no wifi, just gigabit wired connection.

 

[jobz]

Check what is in startup using msconfig or autoruns, and see if there are any errors in event viewer.

 

[Ketchup]

Anything installed right before you noticed the slowdown? What is in your startup?

 

[sm625]

If it were my PC the first thing I would do is remove one of the video cards and then do a complete wipe and reinstall of the nvidia drivers with just one card installed. And then I'd be majorly ticked off if that fixed the problem...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I recently tried removing one video card, tried different slot and also swapped cards to get different combinations. It's still slow. Is there not a way to get debug info? I'm thinking it's something silly like a service that's taking too long and I can just disable it or something.

I also tried changing the ram out of desperation. Though I'm starting to think I have a bad motherboard. When I do memtest it locks up or reboots. Usually it reboots. Only does it if USB legacy is turned on, and only does it with memtest 4.0a. I can't leave USB legacy off though, or I have no keyboard and mouse outside of Windows. (ex: Live CDs)