Mountain Lion login slowdown & hidd timeout

I've searched in every part of Internet, and also in this forum, to solve my problem, but until now I haven't found a solution.
Since some weeks I've observed a peculiar slowdown in the startup of my Mac Mini running Mountain Lion.
My boot is in verbose mode: when the text mode is finished the login screen appears, but for me is impossible to insert the password: I'm forced to wait about five minutes to insert my credentials, then I log in and everithing is fine and my Mac works perfectly.
You can easily understand that is an harmless but annoying bug, that slow down my work.
I've tried to remove every program that is started with the operative system, checked the RAM and the HD, cleaned the system with Onyx, but nothing changes...I've also looked on the console log, and found the message hidd [45]: Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet , but I really don't know what to do....any suggestions?

Please test after taking each of the following steps.
Step 1
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed to boot, and remove anything that's inserted in the card-reader slot, if your model has one, including an empty adapter.
Step 2
Reset the System Management Controller.
Step 3
Boot in safe mode. This will cause certain caches maintained by the system to be rebuilt.
Safe mode is much slower to boot than normal.
When the login screen appears, reboot as usual (not in safe mode) and test. There's no need to log in while in safe mode.
Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t boot in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.

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