I've been through this in Windows 7 and only help was to uninstall antivirus (ESET). I studied logs and sent them to ESET support and obviously with no success. They weren't able to reproduce the problem. So years were passing.... Couple days ago I've decided to try my luck and made new image (Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64) with latest ESET in it. Again same error.
I know that without logs it is very difficult to say what might be the problem, but I believe someone will point to the right direction. I suspect the problem is starting of services.