Windows 7 booting time on MBP 2012

Hello Everyone,
I really hope that someone will be able to help out. I've tried looking for an answer but could not find anything quite similar to my problem...
Yesterday I've equipped my MBP 2012 with SSD with windows 7 installed; I've then used BootCamp 5.X to install all the drivers and that part runs perfect!
My concern is that every time I start up my Mac I can see a white screen that lasts for about 40 seconds, only then it jumps to windows boot logo.
My question is whether everyone with Windows 7 on their Macs experience the same wait time? Is there anything that can be done so that it starts booting windows right away?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks guys!

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Put the two scripts shown below in there target directories and edit any necessary changes for your system.
In Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services set the OracleServiceSID's and the OracleOraHomeTNSListener to Automatic Startup Type. All other Oracle* services should be set to Manual.
In Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Scheduled Tasks double click on the Add Scheduled Task item,
select Next,
Browse to where your startup script resides,
double click the file name,
select "When my computer starts",
select Next,
Enter a user name and password (that has ORA_DBA privileges)
select Next, then Finish.
Uncomment the first exit in the iasStartup.cmd script.
Reboot your system.
Compare the database open time stamp in each database alert log to the time recorded in the iasStartup.log file to determine you first time delay. Add 10-20 seconds or more to this difference just to be safe. If you add services at a later time, this number may need to be increased.
Edit the iasStartup.cmd file to include this time delay for the first sleep command and comment out the first exit command.
Reboot your system.
After several minutes, all infrastructure and application server processes should be up and running. You can check this in several ways; Look at the log file to see if all commands were run, Look at the Windows Task Manager to see if all expected tasks are running, Look at Services to see what is running. Finally, you can look at the Infrastructure Enterprise Manager Website and click on each instance to determine the current status of each system component. On mine, the component Portal:portal:7779 always shows as down but in reality it is functioning.
The following command script only starts the minimum set of processes that I require. Your requirements may be different so refer to the documentation for additional commands.
Enjoy.
******** iasStartup.cmd ********
REM # iasStartup.cmd
REM # Command script to start the infrastructure and application server at system boot
REM # Mike Bukaty
REM # Sandia National Laboratories
REM # [email protected]
REM # set default directory that contains the log and sleep.pl files.
cd E:\Oracle\admin
echo Starting iasStartup.cmd > iasStartup.log
time /t >> iasStartup.log
REM # Uncomment the following command to determine the time delay for your system
REM # exit
REM # This delay is determined by looking at the times from the alert logs
REM # for when the database was opened and the time recorded above.
REM # SLEEP is a perl script to do just that (in seconds) since Windows doesn't have one.
sleep.pl -delay=120
time /t >> iasStartup.log
REM #Start the infrastructure first
REM #The SID for the infrastructure must be set
set ORACLE_HOME=E:\Oracle\as9inf
set ORACLE_SID=iasdb
echo Starting as9inf oidmon >> iasStartup.log
%ORACLE_HOME%\bin\oidmon start
echo Starting as9inf EMWebsite >> iasStartup.log
net start Oracleas9infEMWebsite
REM # Have to wait for all of the website process to finish
sleep.pl -delay=40
REM # All calls to dcmctl must be in there own CMD environment,
REM # or they will halt this one when they complete
echo Starting as9inf dcmctl ohs >> iasStartup.log
cmd /c %ORACLE_HOME%\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -ct ohs
sleep.pl -delay=5
echo Starting as9inf dcmctl OC4J_DAS >> iasStartup.log
cmd /c %ORACLE_HOME%\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -co OC4J_DAS
REM # Start the application server
set ORACLE_HOME=E:\Oracle\ora9ias
echo Starting ora9ias webcachectl >> iasStartup.log
%ORACLE_HOME%\bin\webcachectl start >> iasStartup.log
echo Starting ora9ias dcmctl ohs >> iasStartup.log
cmd /c %ORACLE_HOME%\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -ct ohs
sleep.pl -delay=10
echo Starting ora9ias dcmctl OC4J >> iasStartup.log
cmd /c %ORACLE_HOME%\dcm\bin\dcmctl start -ct OC4J
REM # The above command starts all existing OC4J processes.
REM # You can now stop any that aren't necessary.
echo Stopping ora9ias dcmctl OC4J_Demos >> iasStartup.log
cmd /c %ORACLE_HOME%\dcm\bin\dcmctl stop -co OC4J_Demos
time /t >> iasStartup.log
echo Finished iasStartup.cmd >> iasStartup.log
exit
******** sleep.pl ********
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
## Author: Mike Bukaty
## Sandia National Laboratories
## [email protected]
## Program: sleep.pl
$| = 1;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
Getopt::Long::Configure("no_ignore_case");
GetOptions(
"delay=s" => \ my $delay,
# Set default options
if( not defined($delay) ) { $delay = 1; }
sleep $delay;
exit 1;

New information:
When I originally wrote this, the command script worked as advertised. That was yesterday. I've since had to add the following lines just BEFORE the call to start the oidmon.
echo Starting as9inf oidctl >> iasStartup.log
%ORACLE_HOME%\bin\oidctl server=oidldapd configset=0 instance=1 start
Sometimes me thinks that Oracle reconfigures itself at night when I'm not watching.
Enjoy.

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