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Slow Startup After Virus Removal

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 09:54 AM

Windows will likely pick up the device and reinstall it itself. If not, go into device manager and look for a device with a yellow exclamation mark on it, right-click and select update driver.

You may also download the driver from the manufacturer's website and install it after testing.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 06:18 PM

View PostLucheLibre, on 08 February 2012 - 09:54 AM, said:

Windows will likely pick up the device and reinstall it itself. If not, go into device manager and look for a device with a yellow exclamation mark on it, right-click and select update driver.

You may also download the driver from the manufacturer's website and install it after testing.


Ok uninstalled them, restarted, no change. They reinstalled automatically. I aslo tried disabling services and startup items again after that, no change. What next?

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:19 PM

I'm not sure. So far what we know is that the computer boots substantially faster in Safe Mode, but a clean boot produces no change. AFAIK, that shouldn't happen.

Since SFC comes back clean, I have to think you've got registry damage. Unfortunately, I could look for a week through the Procmon logs and still not find the offending key (or lack thereof).

I've got to bow out of this one. You may need to do a reinstall. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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Posted 15 February 2012 - 01:25 AM

View PostLucheLibre, on 08 February 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

I'm not sure. So far what we know is that the computer boots substantially faster in Safe Mode, but a clean boot produces no change. AFAIK, that shouldn't happen.

Since SFC comes back clean, I have to think you've got registry damage. Unfortunately, I could look for a week through the Procmon logs and still not find the offending key (or lack thereof).

I've got to bow out of this one. You may need to do a reinstall. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Yeah, I may have to do that. I'll see if I can figure something else out. Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

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