Windows 10: Why does upgrading to W11 from W10 degrade startup performance significantly?

On an Acer laptop, I upgraded to W11 from W10 after several "suggestion" messages from Microsoft to do that. Big mistake. Bootup now takes significantly longer as well as intermittent sluggishness on the internet. Sorry I upgraded. Is there any easy fix to this?

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Startup performance degradation...

There's an app on my system that causes startup performance degradation:





The file name in the event viewer is "Devic" and in details tab, the folder name displayed as "C:\Devic". This performance degradation does not happen every day and presumably, during the other days the start up is normal.

The issue is that there's no such file or folder name on my system. Neither the file search with Windows Explorer/TreeSize, nor registry search, running both standard and admin account could find it.

Windows Explorer is set to show hidden items, but beyond that, I don't know how to find these files and folders. Are there other ways to find these items on the system?

TIA...

 

Startup performance degradation...

It did help, I forgot about the SysInternals tools and thanks for the reminder...

You were correct, AutoRuns didn't find anything...

On the other hand, Process Monitor helped somewhat. Searching for the directory of "C:\Devic" came up empty, but did find a lot of errors for "C:\Device" directory:





Maybe the event viewer does not record the folder/file name correctly. These errors are not just a start up time, the app (VIPRE Advanced Active Protection Service) throws these errors about 100 times a minute. Not even certain why it's looking for "Volume 4", the most volume a drive in this system has is three.

That's something that I should take up with Vipre, or J2 Global, or whoever owns it nowadays. That could be a lost cause, since their licensing is a mess to start with:





Yes, that's a valid license key, all services are the latest version, running just fine and definitions are updated. Go figure...

 

How to transfer W10 License to W11

I stupidly thought that if I was going to have a new PC, I might as well put W11 on it and, as I mentioned, having had problems which could not be solved with one PC when I upgraded from W7 to W10, I got afraid of having something similar happen when switching from W10 to W11, silly of me I guess, especially now that I find out that W11 is still half baked with (luckily until now) small problems that are more irritating than crimpling. I actually blew a couple of dollar on an additional 1TB SSD-M2 yesterday to do just what you suggest and I feel like a fool for buying W11.