Presario CQ42 275 TX - White-Q red-screen startup lasts about a minute

My colleague has the same laptop, but the red startup screen just takes about 3 seconds.
Please tell me how to shorten this startup time for my laptop from about a minute to about 3-5 seconds.
Thank you.
(My laptop uses Windows 7 Professional.)

Some bad device driver or a bad device is causing the slow start time. Do you maybe have a memory card in the reader? Have you added any hardware to it? Do a full hard drive scan in the BIOS console. Check the Device Manager and see if there are any driver issues.

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