Boot problems

I have a G73SW and Ive had it since april, but this morning it has been taking >5mins to boot. When booting it gets to the welcome screen and sits there for 5-10min then finally boots. I looked online and tried everything.
Then after trying a bunch of things, and restarting after each one to make sure I know the problem, it was fixed. Then I ran a reg error program and found some things not related to windows at all, and then restarted and it is doing it again.

I dont know what the problems is and I dont know what caused it again.
Anyone experience this?

Also the only thing I installed before this happened was 3dmark11, and nvidia 290.36 driver, but I reverted back.

 

This morning my laptop worked fine when I started it up. For no reason either because I did not do anything to it when I wrote the first post. But luck turned on me and it is doing the same thing again.

Is there a program that can log boot times of programs or drivers so I can see what is causing my computer to hang on the welcome screen.

Edit: just found out that if I have my wireless router off I have no problems but when I turn it on it takes the 5-10 mins to boot. (I tried booting with internet on and off about 5 time each)

 

You can boot in safe mode and review the event manager. Many services will report problems if they take too long or don't respond properly. You can also remove startup items that you deem unnecessary while in safe mode and then reboot.

What I do when my computers are exhibiting a severe problem like that is the following:
1. Make an image of my hard drive to another device (USB drive or another hard drive) using Ghost or some other disk cloning tool.
2. Restore the computer to the factory settings using the recovery feature on the hidden partition.
3. If the problem is gone, I know it's a software issue with my OS. It's time to decide whether to try and repair it or blow it away and start fresh again.

Last time for me, unfortunately it was a hardware problem and I had to RMA. Putting a known good image on the hard disk takes all of the millions of things I could have done to screw it up out of the equation pretty quickly.

 

You can also try installing any free (or trial) utility to review the entries in your startup. Or even plain old msconfig. But I recommend Tune Up Utilities. It has an option to optimize startup based on your usage profile. You can also manually browse through the entries and disable stuff. Try disabling everything that is not system critical (drivers, antivirus, etc.) and rebooting. If it boots fine, it's just a matter of narrowing down to the culprit. It is usually bloatware/malware that you might not be aware of. PS. Tune Up, I think, also has a utility that rates startup items based on their usefulness. It is a community driven rating sytem, that means it is based on ratings from other users of Tune Up. That might help you find the culprit.

 

Also, run chkdsk and check S.M.A.R.T. to check whether the HDD is ok.

 

I ran both and they both came up with no errors. It seems to be booting both fast and slow at random times now. I installed a few drivers that i was missing and it seems to fix it but still no luck. I have been going into my event log and checking to see what is slowing it down and it seems to be a different program everytime!?!?