Slow and Problematic StartUp

[drozofilos]

My computer boots up very slowly and it is very difficult to use it for the first 10 minutes, till I hear the Windows start sound that is way too late. The Windows 7 login screen comes up and I log in without bigger issues. The desktop shows up with some glitches. What happens afterwards is strange. It would appear that the computer is ready to be used, yet nothing works well. Outlook doesn't start and when it does start it is unable to get any messages. Internet Explorer is unable to connect to any web site (it is able to load the home page which is a photograph stored on my PC). Any pages I try to connect to don't load, don't respond and need to be recovered. After some ten or more minutes I hear the Windows start sound and all the internet connectivity issues vanish momentarily. This sounds appears not every time. To use my computer in the first ten minutes is problematic every time.

 

[t_ski]

My first thought would be a bad hard drive. I would download the tools from your drive manufacturer and test the drive outside of the OS.

From there, I would think maybe something else is sucking away resources. Can you boot into Safe Mode and use the computer more quickly? If that's the case, then run msconfig and whittle away at the startup items until you figure out what is causing the issue.

 

[Schmuckley]

I'd say backup your pertinent stuff and go with a fresh install.
I installed something that really drags out the "Winlogon" time to like..2 minutes b4 I can use the iNet n stuff.
As soon as I feel some motivation I'll reinstall a fresh one.
It might be today

 

[Solaris17]

Id say that drive is toast. I would immediately back it up to a cloud service like

One Drive

Google Drive

or an external such as a external HDD or flash.

then I would download gsmartcontrol (and run a R/W test) or crystal disk info and see if your HDD is going out.

If the tests pass and no bad sectors are detected you might have a pretty bad virus.

 

[Jetster]

Its probably tired, loaded with bloat, 5400 drive that is reaching it end.

That's a best guess sense you give us no information about what we are talking about

Fill out your specs

 

[95Viper]

Un-install, then test startup; and then, Reinstall any anti-virus and anti-malware software.
Check your hard drives for errors or trouble.
Get and run Ccleaner (free version) or Privazeer and run a clean up.
Check your startup programs and other items that can be turned off with something like Autoruns (things like, Adobe updater, Logitech updater, any other junk).
Get something Anti-malware, if you don't have any and run it ... Malwarebytes or Superantispyware.
Check your indexing database, if you are using it, for corruption. Turn it off, if you are not using it; or, rebuild it if it is corrupt.

And, do what @Jetster stated,

That's a best guess sense you give us no information about what we are talking about

Fill out your specs

 

[Jeff Stokes]

How about a boot trace?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_sto...o-collect-a-good-boot-trace-on-windows-7.aspx

BTW I've found Ccleander to do stuff it doesn't need to do anymore. I checked it out about a year ago, wasn't impressed personally.