SSD startup pauses (X220/Win7)

After i installed the SSD in my X220, i ofcourse pay much attention to how fast the boot is. Normally it is about 25 seconds - BUT .... sometimes it is much slower.
There are 2 pauses - the first is right after the 'Loading Windows' logo with the flying color balls, where the screen is totally black for as much as 10 seconds and i can see that there is no SSD/harddisk activity.
The second pause is when the wellcome screen (blue) appear right after fingerprint login. This pause is also normally around 10 seconds.
I have found out, that i DON'T have pause 1 when i am connected to the docking station and ethernet at home - so i guess that the system is messing around with network initializing or similar during the 'black screen' period.
I have some shares at home - a fileserver on another machine. When i am at home with the share offline OR i am not at home, i experience pause 2. When i am at home and the share is on-line, pause 2 is gone. So i guess that the reason for pause 2 is, that Windows are trying to find the share.
What i don't understand is, that these two pauses are necessary. I think it should be possible to have these actions running undetected in the background.
Does anyone have any suggestion to overcome these pauses? Are there drivers that will solve it or are there settings i can change that will make a difference?
(Or am i just to nerdy????)
Best regards
Henrik - Denmark
/Henrik - Denmark
X220 - i7-2620, 8GB, 128GB Samsung 830 SSD (I just LOVE my X220!)

Hi
Thanks for your post
Regarding to your issue Please try the following which will help you in decresing the Bootup time
Normally these pauses are caused by some services which take time to get activated
1. Load Bios Defaults , Change the Boot Order and you should have only SSD as First Boot device
2. Under windows Use MSCONFIG to disable few services which you are not using , also Disable Intel Rapid Storage
3. Also check your antivirus settings if there is any option of Pre Scan when Logging in to the system , If that option is enabled you need to disbale that .
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