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Sorry. I should have mentioned them also. I’ve done a complete clean boot and had the system “rediscover” most of my hardware. New drivers have been installed wherever possible. MSCONFIG was used to shut down pretty much every start-up program. Then, I re-enabled them one at a time. Still no change from the long start-up period. I know now that Avast! isn’t the problem. It MAY have started it, but now that Avast! is off my system, and I am still having boot problems, I have to look elsewhere.
This chain of posts by me is now OT for the original poster. My apologies if I’ve stepped over the boundaries of Forum rules.