If you find it takes a very long time for your computer to start up and it seems to stay on the windows startup screen forever and when it finally does load the desktop takes a long time to appear there are a few easy steps to take to prevent this. When your computer is new this does not happen at all. The reason for this problem is not related to the age of your computer or how fast it is.
The real reason your computer starts to slow down is the number of programs you have installed and how they start to use all the memory on your computer. Just removing them though is not enough and this is why you find your computer starts up very slowly, even after you remove them.
How can you fix this problem.
#1 The easiest and most drastic way is to reinstall windows by formatting your hard drive. If you know what you are doing and do not mind losing all your programs and settings you can do this, but most people do not want to do this.
#2 Roll back windows to a point where it was not running slow. Doing this properly is the difference between having a faster computer with half the programs missing or with having a faster computer with all your programs installed.
To do this go to windows start, then accessories, then system tools and click on system restore. Once it opens make sure restore my computer to an earlier time is selected and click next and select a date from the calendar that appears just before the problem started.
Do not make the mistake many people make and go back months or even a year and restore windows to the earliest date you can find. What happens then is that you will lose documents, files and programs back to the date you restored your system. Work back progressively and if you find this does not resolve the problem go to the next step.
#3 Remove as many shortcuts and programs as possible from your windows desktop. Each and every shortcut and program on the desktop has to be loaded at startup by the windows registry and this can slow your PC right down. First of all remove all the programs you do not need and them remove as many shortcuts, folders and files as you can from your windows desktop.
If you still find windows starts up slow and loads the desktop slowly after this then go to the next step.
#4 If windows is still starting slow and all the folders and icons are taking a long time to load properly and you have carried out the steps above it is most likely to be registry related problems slowing your PC. Even after you remove programs, desktop shortcuts and file from your desktop entries are still left behind in the registry. If there are too many windows will go round in a loop looking for them long after they have been removed. To fix this download a system and registry scanner. This will removed all the orphaned or useless files on your computer and in the registry. Follow these steps here and stop windows starting up slowly.
