ok guys i have this problems for like 3-4 months now and every time i start up the laptop it gets to the welcome screen and then after that its just a black screen. it takes around 5 mins to start up and the desktop to appear or i can end explorer.exe and start it up. I also notices that runonce.exe and launcher.exe start up when the desktop is about to pop up. here's a pic
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Some ideas come to mind...
First, run malwarebytes and your virus scanner
Second, check your startup in msconfig for anything unusual
Third, is there anything you tried to install that never completed installation?
Try these and get back to us.
I strongly support the second suggestion by Lemur. Just uncheck runonce.exe, launcher.exe and any other unwanted programs listed in the Startup Page and try restarting again.
There is an excellent shareware program named "Tuneup Utilities 2012" that very nicely controls the Startup Programs and does much else besides. You might like to invest in that.
There is no reason to use a tweaking suite which causes a lot of the problems we solve here. Enter msconfig>Startup and uncheck everything except your AV. After a reboot, enter msconfig>Services, check the box to Hide All MS Services, then do the same. Reboot again to see if anything writes itself back in and turn it off in its Program preferences or Uninstall it in Control Panel.
Follow Lemur's advice to install and run a full scan with Malwarebytes.
Replace any bloatware AV with Microsoft Security Essentials for best performance.
Then work through the rest of these troubleshooting step.
Simply add ONE service at a time, then reboot. It's a process of elimination. Sounds like you are already most of the way there. This is good news! Let us know what you find.
well that would take some time but do you know which of these are required?
here's all my services
i also found some things that might be viruses in my startup it's
winserver.exe located in the c:/windows/system32/firewall/
and winupdater.exe located in c:/users/9username)/desktop/windupdt/
but when i scanned with malwarebytes it didn't pickup anything
Do you use some wallpaper downloader / changer application ? launcher and runonce processes are generated from such programs. Usually those processes are safe, but you may try disabling them ans see if the situation is changed or not.
For the rest, follow the advises you have already got, and dont use any tweaker program .
Still do a virus scan: Home - SurfRight
and MBAM: Malwarebytes : Free anti-malware, anti-virus and spyware removal download
and report back the scan results a virus on start-up can cause this slow boot up
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