Aspire 7 A515-76G Slow Boot even if all startup items are turned off (but quick boot in Safe Mode)

Jeelani

i am having a problem with my Acer Aspire 7 A515-76G laptop. It is booting very slowly, taking a long time to get past the Acer logo. However, when I boot into Safe Mode, it starts up quickly.

I have already tried turning off all startup items, but this has not solved the problem. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and, if so, if they have found a solution.

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/692061/slow-boot-even-if-all-startup-items-are-turned-off-but-quick-boot-in-safe-mode

That indicates a rogue driver slowing down the booting to Windows. The best way is to run MSconfig.exe click on Safe Boot and minimal boot and disable all non-Windows services minus any two and click on Apply. Reboot and repeat the process each time enabling some more services till the boot time gets slow. A very tedious process but effective. A shortcut is, in Msconfig.exe don't check Safe boot but only check the Base Video box and click on Apply. If lucky this setting boots fast and the GPU driver(s) are causing the slow booting. In that case uninstall your display drivers with DDU in safe mode, check internet is working and reboot. Windows will reinstall the GPU drivers. There is another way to check what driver is causing the slow booting in Event Viewer if you have diagnostics turned on in Windows Privacy settings and are not using Fast Startup (Power Plan) otherwise you won't have these logs in Application and Services logs-Microsoft-Diagnostics-Performance-Operational: My last boot time was 30 sec. that is a bit slow. to analyze these boot logs Google for tutorials, some are in computer time some are in milli sec

sman123

I have had this problem since day 1 on my Aspire A515-57. It's definitely not any of the things a lot of people suggest, like rogue drivers, viruses, bad SSD drive etc. It does this on boot with the Acer logo with the spinning animation, before Windows even starts to load. Often takes 5 minutes or more before something in the BIOS times out and Windows finally starts loading. I've tried changing various settings in the BIOS, like disabling secure boot etc., but nothing seems to make a difference.

I am pretty sure this is a bug in the Acer BIOS. Or perhaps a bad Acer hardware driver causing the BIOS to freeze. Whatever it is, it happens BEFORE Windows starts to load. Also note that it doesn't happen every time I reboot. It only seems to happen after a Win11 update that requires a reboot, but not always. It also happens when I have not rebooted the laptop for awhile.

Once again. This has happened since day 1 of owning this laptop. I haven't tried booting into safe mode to see if it boots faster. It's really hard to confirm if that is actually getting around the problem because the long boot time is so unpredictable. After a long boot it will usually boot really fast if I immediately reboot, so getting a fast boot in safe mode immediately after a long boot in normal mode doesn't really prove anything.