Hi Folks. I've tried almost everything on this page. My boot time is somewhere now in the area of 5 minutes. I have no idea why. I've tried cache cleaning, settings, login items, repairing permissions etc. Really not sure what is going on. I'm latest Lion on a vanilla iMac i3 21.5. No special or bizarre stuff running. Suspicious of hardware, but when the machine is up its lightening. Only boot time is slow as all heck. Any diagnostics I can run to trace where the problem might be. Also is there a way to check out the hardware, just in case. Can't find AHT anywhere.
Really close to calling Apple, or never turning my machine off again. btw. Last update forced a restore as the machine would not reboot ever...No more updates either. Thanks, M