Boot-Up Seems Slow on Laptop?

Question

I have a Toshiba Satellite S875D, running Windows 7, and seems to take way longer than 30 seconds to boot up.

Here are some specs:
2.3 Ghz (With boost up to 3.2) AMD A10 Quad core 4600M Processor
4MB L2 Cache
8GB RAM
1 TB HDD
Radeon Graphics

I was under the impression that this was a fairly good (not the best) laptop. But it seems other laptops just BLOW IT AWAY on boot up. I have made some changes to speed it up already, such as booting on all 4 cores, disabling some start-up programs, and turning off the Windows 7 GUI during boot. It seems to take forever when it hits the Windows "Welcome" screen during boot up.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

boot up time with windows 7 (from my experience) isn't any faster than with XP boot up time is around the two to three minutes mark

what will slow boot up times is all the things you've installed such as security program i.e. anti virus, firewall and anti spyware/adware/malware

what you can disable is virtually every program you install wants to run in the background checking for updates this just drags the computer down especially at boot time so disable the updaters

another thing that affect boot time is if the hard drive need defragging

Answer 2

do no longer delete any anti-virus classes, that isn't resolve it, infrequently any anti-virus will intervene in universal utilization it basically sits quietly in the history preserving an eye fixed on issues, i could particularly propose working an anti-virus test just to envision for viruses via fact viruses WILL decelerate a working laptop or laptop, additionally carry out a disk defragment, which ought to hurry issues up additionally sparkling out any non everlasting documents sat on the no longer difficulty-free disk that are no longer doing something anymore by making use of making use of homestead windows Disk Cleanup and additionally close any history applications that are working that could be closed via fact those will often be sat doing no longer something in any respect yet ingesting up RAM and processor supplies, for no stable reason.

Answer 3

i`ve had similar problems with this as well...I disabled everything on the system but my anti-virus (avast) that helped tremendously...also i use a prog called advanced system care free.....in it is a little app called startup manager...this wil show you all the crap that is starting wether you see it in msconfig or not...i also disabled all of it except for anti-virus...boot time was cut in half