I know its an age old problem, but this is baffling me.My computers clean, defragged and running fine. But booting takes forever.In safe Mode it starts fine, the windows bar only goes across 3 times before log on page. But normally the bar goes across 25 times before continuing. In the boot log the prefetchbootinit seems to be taking about 40 secs, and causing the problem. I only have 5 startup programs which have been disabled, but problem persists. Ive cleaned out the prefetch folder, still a problem.What i have noticed though, is that the readyboot folder in the prefetch folder is always empty. Apparently this is needed to speed up the boot.Could this be the problem? and does anyone know if the readyboot folder should be empty?Thanx in advance.


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