My macbook air takes a very long time to start how can I fix this?

It was fine when I turned it off and the next day when I was starting my computer it took for ever. How can this be fixed. I didn't install anything or made any changes.

Here are a couple of suggestions that I've used to speed up my Air when it seems to slow down
- Try lowering the number of start-up programs. To do this go to System Preferences, click on the Users and Groups option and then go into the Login Items tab. From here you can delete any of the programs that you don't really need when you're first starting up.
- Your system might have a lot of cache and junk files. To clean these out I use a third party tool called CleanMyMac. This one needs a paid license but I'm sure there are other ones, maybe even free ones if you looked hard enough.
- Your hard drive could just be over cluttered. The thing with MBA's is that they have such small capacity hard drives in comparison to other MacBooks. You should usually keep 20GB of free space or more if possible. The more free space you have, the better. You could do this by deleting any of your unwanted documents, pictures, videos, etc. and that can help up your system speed. Another option would be to store whatever you can on an external hard drive or something along those lines.
- Lastly, you can go into System Preferences and disable anything that you don't use regularly. For example I've got bluetooth disabled because I rarely use it.
Hope I helped!
-Matt

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