Hello,
Just for something to try, I reset the energy saver preferences to factory 
defaults and the situation improved considerably.  I have a hard drive in this 
mac mini with no SSD.
I’ll continue monitoring the situation.

Thanks for all you responses.

Chris

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:58 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
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>   Login options might also be worth a look at to see what apps are listed.
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> On 7/11/2018 8:00 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
>> As others have mentioned, I would suspect a piece of code that is waiting 
>> forI/O probably network based that is not occurring or takes a while to get 
>> in sync. If you turn off WiFi and disconnect any physical ethernet 
>> connections to you still have a delay? Usually on my systems I get a few 
>> mentions of applications starting in background and if I have been lazy and 
>> have a dozen applications running that can take a while.
>> Also, on my work system I always get a delay when logging in, but then after 
>> the delay a warning dialog box appears stating that a network disk failed to 
>> connect.
>>> On Jul 11, 2018, at 9:39 AM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> After I hear the welcome to voiceOver message, there is a long delay (at 
>>> least 2 minutes) before I can open apps or use the finder.  I’d like to 
>>> understand what is causing this delay and whether I can do anything about 
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> Chris
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