jfrank,

it sounds to me that it is something specific to your application. you can investigate more and find out exactly where the login process is waisting so much time by...

definitely the question was wrong judged and the answer was not complete. or the question was not clear enough.

I removed the BUILTIN\Administrators account and I was able to start SQL Server service with local system account. Something is not correctly formulated in the question or in the answer?

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