How to stop windows from trying to load unloadable drivers?

[chnapo]

Hello there.

 

Reasoning (you can skip this paragraph, just so that you know why I am not doing the "obvious":
I am on a journey on figuring out how to fix long boot times without reinstalling the OS. The reason being that I often encounter people who have old programs that can´t be bought anymore, the companies don´t exist anymore, so they just bring over their SSD to the new computer. Reinstalling the PC would have dire consequences for them. But after some time, the windows take 5, 10, 15 minutes to boot, even with good SSDs.

 

One thing it led me to, is reading boot logs. I found that these machines that take ages to load have one thing in common - a lot of BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED.

I understand that they prolong the windows startup time because windows for some reason cannot load them and is retrying a lot. There are dozens of instances of the same BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED entry. I understand that after a certain amount of tries, Windows just stops trying and doesn´t load it. I´d love to figure out a way how to tell Windows not to even try (for it may be trying to load a driver from old installation for example).

 

Also, Apple has Verbose mode startup where you can see everything line by line, but I have never seen anything like that on Windows and I have looked a lot.

 

An example of repeating log entries:

Compliant Control Method Battery
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @UcmUcsiAcpiClient.inf,%ucmucsiacpiclient.devicedesc%;UCM-UCSI ACPI Device
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @oem204.inf,%devicename%;ASUS App Component
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @compdev.inf,%compdev.devicedesc%;Computer Device
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @oem223.inf,%camodriver.devicedesc%;Reincubate Camo
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @oem4.inf,%intel_dev_9a49%;Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cmbatt.inf,%acpi\acpi0003.devicedesc%;Microsoft AC Adapter
BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @cmbatt.inf,%acpi\pnp0c0a.devicedesc%;Microsoft ACPI-

BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED @oem223.inf,%camodriver.devicedesc%;Reincubate Camo