Windows 7 is taking longer than 30 minutes to boot up after shutdown or restart.

Hello, I have been encountering persistent delays in booting up my primary laptop, which runs on Windows 7. Each time I power it down and restart, the system takes an exceedingly long time to reach the Windows desktop, sometimes around 30 minutes or even more.

I suspect that these delays could be originating from complications within the system Registry. This hypothesis is supported by a couple of observations:

* Whenever I search within the Registry (using Ctrl+F), it takes an exorbitant amount of time, often leading to the application freezing and requiring me to forcibly terminate the process via the Task Manager. Due to this, I usually opt to put the laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down, as it resumes from sleep mode almost instantaneously.

* Additionally, when I attempt to save the Registry through Export, the process takes an exceptionally long time to complete, lasting up to 25 minutes and resulting in a huge file size of 10.4GB.

These symptoms strongly suggest that the Registry may be corrupted, thus leading to the prolonged boot-up times.

I am seeking assistance on whether there is a cost-effective solution to address this issue. While my profile mentions Windows 10 devices, it is worth noting that my other devices running Windows 10 are relatively new and not experiencing the same boot-up or Registry problems as my main Windows 7 laptop.