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20+ Start up of Dell Laptop and Poor Performance??
Hi,
I have had my Dell Studio 1555 with a reasonable spec since 2009 and have never had any real issues. The start up has always taken about 5 minutes, however now the start up from dell booting, to windows, to Microsoft etc. is literally taking 20+ minutes or struggling to load at all.
This is quite a sudden change from slow to extremely slow. I have removed unnecessary start-up programmes and attempted to run malwarebytes and Norton security scanning, however these crashed whilst running. Part of the norton scan is to defrag the hardrive and remove temporary files etc.
The actual functioning of windows and Microsoft once it has loaded isn't terrible but the initial booting is very suspicious almost virus like? The screen remains blank for a long period and will after a long time load into a functioning mode. It is also crashing more than usual when loaded.
Tonight I was going to run the malwarebytes and norton in safe mode to see if any viruses are picked up? Could it be malware, adware etc. or maybe a piece of hardware has just gone bad?
This is out of the ordinary and would appreciate any advice before I pay out for a new device or get fixed by a pro.
Thanks guys!