Let me start by describing my setup:
Windows 7, X64, SP1
Asus M4A785-M motherboard
SanDisk SSD
CCleaner 4.10
Google Drive (IDK what version it is, download date 03/27/14)
For the past six months I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out the reason why my computer would randomly freeze about 20 or 30 seconds after booting up. I spent about a week flipping services on and off trying to figure out why I was constantly getting "Event ID 7001" errors:
- The HomeGroup Provider service depends on the Function Discovery Provider Host service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.
- The Workstation service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.
I finally stumbled upon something that I think "solved/worked-around" the problem. When booting, before freezing I accidentally popped open CCleaner (I have it run when Windows starts) and noticed that it had gotten stuck on one particular file:
- C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI55362\pythoncom27.dll
After repeating this exact same rigamoroux 3 or 4 times I decided I found my culprit. I found that the file has to do with Google Drive (GD). I rebooted to safe mode and ran CCleaner and it ran with no problems, rebooted into normal mode and had no problems since the file had been deleted (see screen shot).
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The screen shot is of CCleaner when I ran it in safe mode. CCleaner searched and it found / deleted the pythoncom27.dll file.
I uninstalled GD and had no booting problems for a couple of days. I reinstalled GD and >boom!< the computer froze. Another thing I found was that whenever the computer froze, _MEI***** would change the last five digits of the folder's name.
I don't know why this is happening, I just know that it is happening. So, I guess that a possible solution could be adding an option for CCleaner to "delay start by 30 seconds," maybe (IDK) this will help CCleaner and GD to play nice with each other .
Muchas gracias,
Ray
Update April 15th
I found a better way to workaround the problem. I downloaded and installed Glary Utilities 4.9, where I used the 'Startup Manager' to delay CCleaner's startup by 15 seconds. The neat thing is that Glary utilities allows you to pick and chose which applications will run at boot and which ones you can delay by whatever amount of time you want.