Re: Satellite L300 boots up slowly

Hi Everybody,
I'm not sure whether my issue is OS related or laptop related, so I figured I would start here.
I've got a Toshiba Satellite L300 running Windows Vista Home. I love this laptop, it's probably the best I've ever had; it ticks all the boxes (battery, speed, display, etc), but there is one aspect that drives me up the wall - from power on it takes an age to get past the Windows Welcome screen to the login prompt. Is this Vista behaviour or is there some Toshiba effect going on during boot?
I've got a desktop machine in the house running the same OS and it pretty much boots straight to the login screen - which makes me jealous! That sort of boot time would be very useful when I'm mobile!
If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear from you.
Many thanks,
Alex

> Between the Vista Logo appearing and the login prompt it can take about 3-4 minutes
Yeah, it's pretty much time to boot up. It looks like Os related issue. My advice is to download software like Tuneup utility. It cleans registry, defragment, remove the old files ... Also, you should check System configuration -Startup.
By the way, do you have an application called ,,Face recognition,, it can also take much time. If suggested above don't help you, you can reinstall Os but don't forget to back up necessary files/folders

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