slow startup

Thanks for any help.
HP Pavilion p7-1380t 64-bit
Windows 7 pro 64-bit

I have taken all the HP Garbage off the computer
but the startup is very slow.
I have gone into startup and disabled everything
that I thought was not needed at startup.
Need some ideas on what to check for next....

Try defragging, disk cleaning, and SFC /SCANNOW.

phenix said:

Thanks for any help.
HP Pavilion p7-1380t 64-bit
Windows 7 pro 64-bit

I have taken all the HP Garbage off the computer
but the startup is very slow.
I have gone into startup and disabled everything
that I thought was not needed at startup.
Need some ideas on what to check for next....

Very slow can be lightening fast to someone else, it's subjective. What's the bootup time?

To Computerkid
Been doing maintenance for years so that is not the problem.

To Sir George
About 2 minutes

Interesting question Sir George, you're absolutely right.

Also check what services are automatically starting, especially non-Windows services.

phenix said:

To Computerkid
Been doing maintenance for years so that is not the problem.

To Sir George
About 2 minutes

2 minutes is't really all that long, depending on what's loading during the boot process: I know that 2 minutes seems like forever.

One thing you may want to try is referenced in the following article;

Virtual Memory Paging File - Clear at Shutdown - Vista Forums

or

How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown

HTH

Brink said:

Hello George,

I'm not sure what that would do to help with a slow startup. Doing that will only cause his shut downs to take a bit longer while waiting on the page file to be deleted before the computer actually shuts down.

I was replying just before the brain was engaged this morning. The article was for a shutdown issue...as a starter and clearing the cache file does increase the time.

So, in simple terms, I messed up! Thanks for the catch.