Ridiculously long boot time

I'll try to keep this short and simple.

The above shows the average loading time (during the boot process, obviously - Sorry for using such an old screenshot) of ESET NOD32 Antivirus (fully upgraded, 64-bit, windows 7, running on default settings). More specifically, EKRN.exe.

Not what I would call blistering speeds, and it takes a full 5 minutes for my computer to load after the windows welcome screen disappears. Now, I know that it isn't just ESET doing this, looking at the event log:

...yet it must have something to do with eset - I mean, 2 minutes? Seriously?

To tell the truth, I'm a little afraid of messing around in the workings of my computer - I've had 3 startup-repair boots this month alone. So, may I have some assistance and opinion on what the best course of action is?

I also uploaded both images as attachments.

See the attacked .txt for my system information, including all installed programs.

View attachment System.txt

 

are there more errors in event viewer logs?

 

Any specifics? I filtered events 101-110 as well, and ESET definately takes the longest to start. The rest have relatively normal (<30 seconds) load times.


And, yeah, all the "error" classed ones are eset.

 

Any other errors or warnings under System (event viewer/windows logs)? What was the cause of those repairs?

 

hmm... Apparently, the device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 had a bad block...
Does that mean...what I THINK it means?

There's also another error which frequently appears, sourced as the Service Control Manager.

 

Yes it does mean that. Backup data, repair it with chkdsk and keep monitoring, if those errors start coming back time for a new drive

 

Damn... thanks for the quick reply.