That made no difference, boot hangs for 5m33sec almost like clockwork, whereas 3/4 months ago the boot hang was about 2 mins only. There are very few drivers with a 2017 date, I don't understand, what event does the term 'Link Date' refer to please? Also, I'm wondering if I should investigate 3rd part tools like Autoruns which shows something called 'Timestamp'? And Nirsoft ServiWin which shows 'Last Write Time', neither of which are particularly obvious/helpful to me in terms of the last updated date.Īpologies for the slow reply, I've been too busy! Please could you explain more about services disk faults?Īfter your reply, I decided to reset the hosts file first and run these commands too to reset the network: I ran that query 'driverquery /v', I guess I need to run it in safe mode or a clean boot state though. It'd be far easier to roll back the whole lot in one go at reboot by finding a 3rd party tool that does that - and then after the rollback is done, I don't have to install each device's driver one by one do I, I just have to check it doesn't hang, then install and reboot to check for a hang on 7 driver installation package updates, namely - Intel chipset, Intel MEI, Realtek Audio, Asmedia SATA controller, Intel LAN, Intel RST, NVIDIA driver. But it's hard to pick all the devices in device manager one at once to eventually roll back each driver, it'll take ages, plus as you say, the drivers might get reinstalled again on boot unless I delete them and even so I'm not sure it'll like it.

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