Boot up too long

[Peekay09]

I have been struggling with extremely lengthy boot and start up times. I have tried everything including installing recently the windows 11 repair installation. I have been protected from day one from a genuine installation of McAfee and I have searched for malware and viruses over and over again. It’s driving me up the wall. I have a 17” Envy also a this doesn’t suffer from the same symptoms. Admittedly it’s a i7 and the problematic laptop is an i3. But it can be as log as 4 or 5 minutes on the i3. Please help fed up now!!!!

[BeemerBiker]

Slow Boot

Look in the windows event log under both application and system for 

- timeouts

- disk retry

- network errors

I got rid of McAfee years ago when it was taking 30 second timeouts trying to connect to old servers not on the internet anymore.  Hopefully they fixed that as it was about 2018 or 2019 as I recall.  I use Win-11 defender even on old windows 10 systems not compatible with 11.

Make sure both McAfee and Defender are not both running nor any other antivirus at the same time.

Slow Windows

CLICK HERE for general help for speeding up windows

Try the disk cleanup

Unwanted apps in startup

Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) and select the Processes tab

1 - Is either the CPU, RAM, GPU or disk running at a very high percentage, when account is lagging, and if so, can you see what process is consuming that resource?

2 - Click the "Startup" tab and see how many items are listed there. Generally, you can disable all. If this make a big difference, then enable one at a time until you find the one or ones causing the problem.

3 - Possibly you need to scan for "Malicious" software. Generally speaking this is software that is not considered a virus or trojan. It performs unwanted functions such as downloading newer advertisements or reporting what the users is looking to buy and offering alternative suggestions. Typically free games have these apps.
Type MRT in the windows search bar to run the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. The game or app will not be deleted but hopefully the update process will be uninstalled. This is better than the "step 2" which just disables them.