Recent content by JCook84

I managed to isolate the problem. Disabling "AuthenTec Fingerprint Service" created the delay. Re-enabling it removed the delay, regardless of what I did with the other services.

Oh. Wow. Just to see what happened, I re-enabled every single service there was. (I'm talking about the non-Microsoft services that Toshiba bundled with the laptop.) And the problem went away. So, I assume one of the non-Microsoft services I disabled actually was important. I'll go through and...

I think you may have misunderstood. The 5 seconds was after it reaches the login stage: in other words, after I type in my password and press return, it used to take less than 5 seconds to get me to the desktop. Now it takes more than 30. I'm NOT talking about the total startup time here. Same...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...