Welcome screen takes ~25 seconds long on Windows 7 using SSD!?

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Upon boot, my PC takes about 10 seconds to reach the screen where I enter my password however, when I enter it I am left with the logon 'welcome screen' for about 25 seconds!

When I finally get to the desktop however everything runs quickly with no problems like expected.

I have already given my PC a clean boot which didn't help and I also enabled the boot log to check if there was anything unusual (there wasn't)

Does anyone have any solutions to this problem or know why this is happening?

Thanks in advance

Notes:
Using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
120GB Sandisk SSD (OS is installed on here)
My PC background is not a solid colour (people have suggested that a solid coloured PC background affects boot times)
I also own a separate 1TB WD blue HDD (for storage)

 
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golemka
Enable AHCI (!)

The last and great tip we want to give you to gain a little extra performance boost is that you should enable AHCI mode. AHCI mode can help out greatly in performance for SSDs. Now, if you swap out an HDD for an SSD with the operating system cloned and THEN enable AHCI in the BIOS, you'll likely get a boot error / BSOD. The common question is, is there a solution for this?

To answer that question (and as we do safely with all modern chipsets) there is a way to safely enable AHCI mode. Here we go:

Startup "Regedit"
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlset / Services
Open msahci
In the right field left click on "start" and go to Modify
In the value Data field enter "0" and click "ok"
exit "Regedit"...
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Enable AHCI (!)

The last and great tip we want to give you to gain a little extra performance boost is that you should enable AHCI mode. AHCI mode can help out greatly in performance for SSDs. Now, if you swap out an HDD for an SSD with the operating system cloned and THEN enable AHCI in the BIOS, you'll likely get a boot error / BSOD. The common question is, is there a solution for this?

To answer that question (and as we do safely with all modern chipsets) there is a way to safely enable AHCI mode. Here we go:

Startup "Regedit"
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlset / Services
Open msahci
In the right field left click on "start" and go to Modify
In the value Data field enter "0" and click "ok"
exit "Regedit"
Reboot Rig and enter BIOS (typically hold "Delete" key while Booting)
In your BIOS select "Integrated Peripherals" and OnChip PATA/SATA Devices. Now change SATA Mode from IDE to AHCI. You now boot into Windows 8 - 7 or Vista, and the OS will recognize AHCI and install the devices. Now the system needs one more reboot and voila... enjoy the improved SSD performance.
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this may help

if not then try a software called ssd tweaker
 
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