Ok so, I factory reset my laptop today. Finally. It was so full of unnecessary stuff, files were disordered, my C: partition was filled up, but most importantly, it was slow. Very slow.
Now, after setting everything up, (installing all Microsoft updates, Nvidia Drivers, etc.) my laptop worked seamlessly. Just perfect. Then, I decided to reinstall Avast. After the reboot, the boot time in total (as recorded by Event Viewer) was of 163.869 seconds. Wow. Really? It was just less than 40 seconds a few minutes before!
Well, I don't know what to do now. I did this from a clean OEM Windows 7 version, and Avast still bogs down my laptop's boot time massively? I hope I could do something but I'm just powerless :/ I want Avast to work, but it doesn't want to cooperate? Lol :/. Is there any way this could get fixed? By the way, I installed using Express Settings.
My laptop specs:
Intel Core i7 2630QM
Nvidia GT540M 1GB
6GB RAM
5'400RPM 640GB HDD
15.6" 1366x768
Windows 7 64-Bit