We all hate when it takes forever for our computer to boot up. And it is usually an easy thing to fix and diagnose but not today! AtA has a issue that you readers need to help one of your own with. Check out the issue and leave what YOU think is the issue in the comments! And FonDoo we have some more questions we emailed you and now there a few more @ the bottom of this post. We WILL get to the bottom of this!
FonDoo writes to us:
My notebook is taking longer and longer to boot to desktop now. Any idea's why?
I've already went into start/run/msconfig/startup and removed useless junk
app's. Even in Windows Defender / Tools / Software Explorer, I've removed Adobe Acrobat, Quicktime and iTunes and it still takes longer to boot to my desktop. I had NHC(Notebook Hardware Controller) installed, but removed it few days later after experiencing slowness to boot to desktop. I really do not want to reformat my notebook and reinstall Windows XP. Any thoughts? Thanks again.
We replied back and forth for a bit and we got this additional information:
Thanks for the quick reply. I have not installed any new software lately,
besides NHC(which was completely removed from Add/Remove Programs. I am running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and the latest Windows
Defender.
Thank you.
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Hmmm we had our troubled friend uninstall Mcafee to see if that was the issue. But it wasn't. Then we tried system restore to go back a whiles before his last software installation. But again super slow booting to the desktop. FonDoo tells us nothing really is hogging the processor but the machine is lagging like a MoFo. We have requested screen shots of the task manager and information from the event viewer. Anyone else have some good ideas for a loyal reader?
One more thing to try FonDoo uninstall defender and reboot... Then go to Safety.Live.Com Microsofts free Full scanner and run the full scan. I have also seen a corrupt prefetch folder kill boot time - Try deleting all your files inside your prefetch folder. The necessary ones will be recreated on reboot.
How about your Windows Update - Are you up to date?
Let us know how it works out FonDoo!
