Cold start vs reboot

[MacInWin]

Over the years I have done so many clean OS installs that one more will not make much difference.

OH, no, it won't be ONE install, it will be ONE install for EACH application, then ONE install for each combination of two, then three, then four....until you find the culprit. As I said, a MASSIVE amount of work.

What NTFS driver? Why do you have that? I got rid of the NTFS driver completely and shifted to using exFAT to interact with any Win machine. NTFS drivers were just too dodgy to use. Not saying it's the problem, but I'd get rid of it if it were on my system.

 

[MacInWin]

Before you start mucking with reinstalls, how about running Etrecheck on your system and let us see what is being loaded into your system that modifies the kernel? Given that the problem isn't there in a safe boot, it is being created by something being loaded on a normal boot.

 

[chscag]

NTFS drivers were just too dodgy to use. Not saying it's the problem, but I'd get rid of it if it were on my system.

Some of them have caused problems for users, however, the Paragon driver for NTFS has always been stable and works well. I definitely do not like using exFAT or FAT-32 because FAT is a non journaling file system and suseptible to errors.

 

[MacInWin]

Not for me. ParagonNTFS was what I got rid of. I don't care about journaling, I only use exFAT to transfer between machines, no permanent storage.

 

[MikeFromMesa]

What NTFS driver? Why do you have that? I got rid of the NTFS driver completely and shifted to using exFAT to interact with any Win machine. NTFS drivers were just too dodgy to use. Not saying it's the problem, but I'd get rid of it if it were on my system.

Paragon's NTFS driver. I have been using it for a long, long time (perhaps 6 or 7 years) and I have never had a problem with it. I use it because one of my external drives are in NTFS format so I can share the drive and data with my wife, who uses a Windows computer.

It might be worth removing it just for testing to see if that has anything to do with this issue, but it is hard to see how it would, considering that it has not caused me any troubles up to this point.

As for the idea that this has anything to do with the auto login, it apparently does not. I changed the settings and did a cold start and saw the exact same problem.