So, as a resume, here is my configuration:

1. Windows Power Options
   1. Open Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options
   2. Click on “Change what the power buttons do” on the left
   3. Click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable”
   4. Uncheck the option “Turn on fast start-up (recommended)”
2. Bios
   1. Enter your UEFI bios (I am using the latest version when posting his)
   2. Click on “Exit/advanced mode” button in the upper-right corner and enter the advanced mode
   3. Go to the “Advanced” tab and select the entry “APM”
      1. Enable the option “Power On By PCI/E/PCI”.
      2. Enable also the “Network Stack”
   4. Possibly go next to the “Boot” tab and
      1. Either disable the option “Fast Boot”
      2. Or if you enable it, enable its sub-option “Network Stack Driver Support”
3. Network adapter settings:
   1. Open Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center
   2. Click on “Change Adapter Settings” (on the left)
   3. Right-Click the Network Adapter “Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection” and select “Properties”
   4. In the “Networking Tab”, click “Configure”
   5. In the “Power Management” tab, yous should now see and tick the option “Wake on Magic Packet from power off state”
   6. Keep the “Wake on Magic Packet” option ticked too (to wake from Sleep State).

All about System Power States can be found on Intel website:

Delay the start-up of Applications

You can have a look on the applications started with Windows in the Task Manager (CTRL–SHIFT–ESC) > Tab “Start-up”.

In that tab, you see which applications have an impact on the Start-up Process.There are several possible values:

• High – the application uses more than 1000 millisecond of CPU time or more than 3MB of disk I/O
• Medium – the application uses 300 to 1000 ms of CPU time or 300KB to 3MB of disk I/O
• Low – the application uses less than 300 milliseconds of CPU time and less than 300KB of disk I/O
• Not Measured – This could happen with some of the third party apps where windows is unable to determine the impact. An application like BootRacer (Free for non-commercial use) could be used to determine the impact.

Next, install “Startup Delayer” from R2 Studios, a simple but very flexible application used to postpone the startup of applications. You can customize how much you want to delay them and in which order you want to start them. E.g.: as long as there is not enough CPU available. I did delay all the applications that are not critical IMO to use Windows. I.e.: I kept only Acronis (backup), Avast (Antivirus), Audio and Video managers. And all the other ones have been delayed. A simple Drag&Drop can be used to move an application from “Normal Startup” to “Delayed” or “Disabled”, or to reorder the delayed ones.

In the screenshot of the Task Manager, all delayed applications appear grouped under “Startup Launcher”.

A famous alternative to “Startup delayer” is “WinPatrol” but it does much more than just delaying start-up applications. And as always, I prefer simple applications that fit one single need than one big application trying to fit all needs…

Delay the start-up of Services

Services starting up can be delayed via the Service Management console (Services.msc). Use the “Automatic (Delayed Start)” option:

Here are the services that I have delayed:

Simply edit the config files “Configurator.exe.config” and “MediaBrowserService.exe.config” located by default in “C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaBrowser” or “C:\Program Files\MediaBrowser” depending respectively if Windows is a x64 or x86.

Search for 6.2.0.0 and replace each occurrence with 6.3.0.0 (using Notepad++ run as administrator)

It works for me… both for the service and the configurator
This is a workaround for those who don’t want to move from MediaBrowser 2.6.2 to 3…