Mac takes almost 10 minutes to start up since update two weeks ago

Hello all! I've had my mac for almost three years now and it has been problem free until the beginning of this year.
First in February the hard drive failed for no reason which of course I had to pay to replace. Since then things have
been running smoothly until a couple of weeks ago when the computers update software prompt came up. One update
was for security, the other update was for java. I figured both were important so of course I updated. From the next day forth
my mac has been taking at least 10 minutes to boot up and another 4-5 minutes to open up a browser. These beneficial updates
seem to be doing more harm than good. Can anybody help? Thanks!

There are no known issues with any of the updates for Mac OS X.
There is a very high chance that your hard drive might be to blame. Apple provide the highest quality of hard drives and many others are not as good and may cause performance issues.
I would suggest that you delete any un-nesescary files and empty your trash, internet history (which can take up gigabytes of space on older Macs) and un-needed pictures. I did this last year (after backing up all the files just in case) and it sped up my start up speed.
I would al;so reccommend using an application called CleanMyMac which will give you back tens of gigabytes of space (40GB for me!).
The more space you use the longer it takes for the computer to locate and load files which can slow processes down, so deleting files will help your problem a lot.
Hope this helps!!!

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