Laptop takes extremely long time to boot. Suggestions?

[clairebear777]

Hi

I am trying to fix my laptop as its taking a really long time to boot and it keeps freezing, I currently have the use of another laptop so I would see if I can use it to find out a bit more about what might be wrong with it. This is what I have tried to do already:

Checked the start up on msconfig and it looks relatively normal - mostly dell and intel items
run windows defender offline from boot but it doesn't seem to have found anything
I have tried to system restore but its only giving me 1 recent date which is no good.
Nothing seems to be showing up with AVG AV scans
I also tried to run the SFC/scannow function but wasnt really sure what I was looking at so that wasnt too helpful.

Any help or suggestions would be great appreciated.

Claire

 

[Imrankhan]

Are you using System Maintenance Utilities in your PC?
They may messup the registry entries.

 

[clairebear777]

system maintenance untilities? Do you mean like AVG tune up for example? I did install that but have since uninstalled it.