Long 20 minute démarrage/démarrage après Visual Studio Installation

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Yesterday I wanted to get back into a bit of XNA so I **installed Visual Studio 2012 Express Desktop and Visual Studio C# 2010**. I also installed the XNA framework (which needs Games for Windows on windows 8) and got it working with 2012 following [these directions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10881005/how-to-install-xna-game-studio-on-visual-studio-2012). I did the **restarts whenever it told me**. This is when it started to just hang on a **black/blank screen (no cursor) right after the windows balls logo thing ([spash screen](http://0.tqn.com/d/pcsupport/1/0/S/H/-/-/windows-8-clean-install-03.png) - right before log in screen)**.

I did not think anything of it the first time and I went about doing a **ccleaner run of files** and a **registry clean up** (I did back up the registry). I also went through a **windows update** as per normal routine. Restarted again for the updates and noticed it hanged again.

I tried merging the registry from the ccleaner backup but it gave me a error accessing the registry. I *was* able to **merge the registry today** so all is good there.

I have also run through a **Advanced Startup options Automatic repair** but it said it was unable to repair.

I have **uninstalled** Visual Studio 2012, 2010, XNA, and Games for Windows and boot times still take 20 minutes. The computer seems to work fine once it is loaded up. Before, I thought the culprit could be Visual Studio or Norton since it gave me a `Error 8506, 421`; I uninstalled Norton last night and reinstalled today.

My computer is a [Asus K-Series Laptop](https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K55N/) (K55N more specifically K55N-RHA8N29).

What should I do to get my computer back to normal?

**There is a similar issue here:** [Windows 8 stops booting after installation of Visual Studio 2012 Desktop](https://superuser.com/questions/497136/windows-8-stops-booting-after-installation-of-visual-studio-2012-desktop)

**EDIT:**

I did install Team Foundation Server which is Microsoft's source control but I could not get that to work as it crashed Visual Studio when opening projects. I uninstalled Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2012 and then reinstalled VS 2012. I got TortoiseSVN instead and set up the context menu commands.

Also, taking a look at msconfig: On the startup selection it has `Selective Startup` with `Load system services` and `Load startup items` checked (I did not change). Should it instead be `Normal startup`? -- Just read when you do the Advanced Troubleshoot (probably same as Advanced Startup options) it changes from `Normal` to `Selective`. I have changed it to Normal but have not restarted to see results.

**EDIT 2:**

I just looked at the [bios updates for my laptop](https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K55N/#support_Download_36) and saw this in the changelog: "Fix the bug that System will show black screen". I might need to update my bios although I am unsure of the current version. Also, I am not sure how to update but researching it now. *Edit:* Unfortunately, it looks like my bios is up to date. The download is for BIOS 217 and mine says 217.

**Edit 3:**

After running xbootmgr (suggested by [magicandre1981](https://superuser.com/users/174557/magicandre1981)) I have a nice log file of what is going on. I wish I knew how to analyze this data better. From the log, I learned that the `Winlogon Init` Phase took 25 minutes. I could use some assistance analyzing this log file better to get more information.

Here is a download of two traces I did: **removed*

**Edit 4 (4/5 - 6:23pm):**

I was going to try to delete the troubled font by hooking up the hard drive to another PC but it was not recognized on a Windows XP machine with my SATA to USB adapter. I put the hdd back and booted but the notebook and it went super fast like it used to. I turned it off and back on and it went back to being slow. Just thought I would share the glimmer of hope.

**Edit 5 (4/5 - 8:21pm):**

I finally got rid of that f.... pesky font. For future reference, the font was `Kozuka` from Adobe. It took a lot of work to get rid of it. The OS seemed latched on to it and did not want to let go. I downloaded NexusFont and got rid of the whole family but there were still two files left (`KozMinPro-ExtraLight.otf`, and `KozMinPro-Regular.otf`) that stuck around in the System Font folder only visible through the UNC path convention (`\\computer-name\c$\Windows\Fonts`). Had to use a cmd command(`rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin`) to empty the recycle bin and use a `del` command to finally get rid of the files. Boot times are down to about 7 minutes which is better but not back to normal.

Here is a couple traces from the 7 min boots: **removed*

**Clarification** (8:47pm) - I shutdown and started up and it is going fast as normal now. Not saying it is solved but possibly. Traces are essentially restarts and still 7 minutes but without trace it takes about 3 minutes to restart (not sure how long when normal). Shutdown and Turn back on seem to work lickety split.

**Edit 6 (4/6 12:03pm):**

Good news, fast-boot trace and normal boot trace were fast as ever. I disabled Unlocker from startup and turned off the services for Spybot and Teamviewer. Wamp is the only NON-Microsoft service that isn't disabled (for some reason it does not re-enable the service when it starts up). I have not tried plain restart since last night.

Download both here: [http://db.tt/Kw2HVBqi](http://db.tt/Kw2HVBqi)

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ok, I looked at the trace and found that the ProfileService takes 281s to start:

```
<serviceTransition name="ProfSvc" group="ProfSvc_Group" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="281174"

```

I can also see that the HDD is busy loading the file `C:\Windows\Fonts\KozMinPro-ExtraLight.otf` This takes 312s and causes the WinLogon.exe slwdown. Remove this font and look if you get a faster boot. If not, provide a new trace.