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Startup help please - things do not seem to startup properly...
Excuse the vague title.
Computer is Intel quadcore q9450 (about 7 years old) with 8Gb RAM
For ages now, startup is unsatisfactory in the following ways:
- generally very slow, takes 10 minutes before I can actually start opening things and getting on with stuff
- Crashplan cannot connect to backup engine. Have spoken to CP, they say reinstall, I do and it works for one restart, generally. On subsequent restarts it tends to not work.
- Comodo doesn't start properly, and needs to be started manually.
- Avast is now not starting properly (recent development)
Some other background stuff, which is supposed to be there, does start OK, albeit all quite slowly.
Once the computer is up and running it's not too bad.
I generally keep the machine de-crapified using CCleaner - startup stuff is things like dropbox, keyboard/mouse software, one or two other things.
Would much appreciate advice on where to start troubleshooting this if possible.
Many thanks,
Mud.