[SOLVED] Boot Delay

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Leo G

Discussion Starter · Feb 18, 2012

Hi all. I am having a pretty long delay when booting up my Dell Inspiron 9400. Had the problem once before and checkdisk/f took care of it. Not this time.

I ran BootVis and the last program to load before the delay is AAWSERVICE.EXE. According to my search this file belongs to Ad Aware from LavaSoft. I no longer run this program and it was removed with the uninstall program.

I looked in the Windows Services area and the file is not listed. I looked into Add/Remove programs and it is not there. There is a directory for it but it is empty (2007 version)

I believe the delay is cause because the computer is expecting this file and it doesn't exist. It finally gives up and continues on with the boot process. How do I make the process of looking for this file stop so it no longer looks for it, especially since I no longer use the program.

Here is the BootVis Graph.

Thanks.:grin:

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Old Rich

· #2 · Feb 18, 2012

Re: Boot Delay

Press the Windows Flag key and R at the same time and type

msconfig

Look in Startup and Services for an entry calling up Adaware . . While in there, you can disable any other applications that are running that you do not need to run at startup

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Old Rich

· #4 · Feb 18, 2012

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Might . . I would use revo uninstaller to uninstall it . . let it chase down all the registry entries that the native uninstaller misses.

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Old Rich

· #7 · Feb 19, 2012

Re: Boot Delay

That can be a virus . . do a search and see what folder it is in. If it is in c:/Windows, it is nasty and you may be infected. It shuld be in C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem

Do you see it being called up in msconfig startup? How comfortable are you editing the registry?

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Old Rich

· #9 · Feb 19, 2012

Re: Boot Delay

Once you create a system restore point ( just in case something goes south ) run regedit and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Export the key for WMIPRVSE.EXE to a file then delete it and see how things go

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Old Rich

· #11 · Feb 19, 2012

Re: Boot Delay

Were any of those places in a run folder?

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Old Rich

· #13 · Feb 19, 2012

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Might try disableing it in Services

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Old Rich

· #15 · Feb 19, 2012

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Windows Management Instrumentation Provider Service cna be used by a variety of program,s and apps, and could be called up by them . . I would disable it in Services and see if performance is any different

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Old Rich

· #18 · Feb 19, 2012

Re: Boot Delay

Does everything run ok with that disabled?

See this for more in Shell Hardware Dection . . Shell Hardware Detection Service

Process Explorer is a handy tool to find out what is calling up services

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Old Rich

· #20 · Feb 19, 2012

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That is one purpose of that service . . recognize and use DVD, Flash drives and other removable devices. The delay may have been because it was polling the system for those kinds of devices

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Old Rich

· #22 · Feb 19, 2012

Great . . Glad you solved it!!

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Old Rich

· #24 · Feb 19, 2012

That happens a lot to me! !

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