Windows boot takes 7 minutes

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TimurS

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Hello,

I use macOS Sierra 10.12.1, Parallels 12 (business user with another account). And I installed Windows 10.

Since several weeks, starting Windows takes extremely long time. It is slow especially in the following 2 stages:

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I just restarted twice, the first time took 7 minutes and the second time took 6 minutes. It is untenable.

Does anyone know what's wrong here? I am really desperate...

Thank you
 
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I have what appears to be the exact same problem. It has been working very well for ~2 weeks, but suddenly started being very slow.

It is almost as if disk access has slowed drastically.

I have tried:
  • Actions-reset
  • Reinstall Parallels
  • Update windows system files (first step outlined here)
I'm running parallels 12 on Sierra
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You can delete this message if you like, but I think my issue was self-inflicted.

I had set up Crash Plan (running on Windows) to back up my VM as well and I think it was pulling in several of the items from the mac drive. At any rate, removing that seems to have fixed my issue. Definitely a corner case, but may help someone at some point.
 
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My previous note was not correct. This issue just seems to come and go. The suggestions in that article aren't useful in this situation.

This is not a situation that needs a performance tweak, this is a situation where going from entering my password to having a desktop takes several minutes.
 
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