Extended Boot time

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Greetings–
Having an annoying problem. When booting computer, avast indicates that there are 7 providers with 4 running. It takes a couple of minutes for the final 2 providers to start to run. I have 1 provider turned off. The two that don’t start promptly are the Web Shield and Internet Mail. The message shown is "Provider waiting for a sub system to start. I have a limited number of programs that start at boot. I have tried turning various programs off to see if any change to boot time. Doesn’t seem to have any effect.

I have tried AVG 8 free. Didn’t like program, but did not have the extended boot time problem. Any help or ideas appreciated. Thanks in advance.

OS is Vista SP1 Home Premium
Mail provider is Windows Mail

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Those two are user set and manual start so would normally be behind the ones set to automatic. Though it shouldn’t be anywhere close to 2 minutes.

Have (or did) you another AV installed (other than avg8, see below) in this system, if so what was it and how did you get rid of it ?

AVG8 Remover, download tool from here, http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-tools there is a 32bit and 64 bit windows version, ensure you use the correct one.

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Thanks for quick reply. I was sure I had used AVG remover when I uninstalled, but I just used it again just in case. Any other AV or Malware program I had installed previous I have used dedicated remover if available. I’ll monitor boot times for a while and see if time improved. Thanks again. I’ll keep posting if continued problem.

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No problem, welcome to the forums.

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If you can get help with the advanced info at Vista:
Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools
This could reveal what is messing your boot time. Sorry, I’m not an expert on it.

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Tech–

I ran the AVG uninstaller as suggested by DavidR and I delayed the startup of Avast until other services are booted. Suprisingly, the boot time has improved considerbly to about 30 seconds.
Thanks for your input.

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You’re welcome.

I’m not to surprised in the boot time improvement, but 30 seconds is very good. Though I would have only done one step at a time to see what each gave to the results you achieved.

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Glad to know…
Is there any other security program installed in this computer that could be making booting more difficult?