Satellite A300-1PH - Very slow statrting of Windows

Toshiba Satellite A300- 1PH.
Due to some Viruses, I started the recovery on my laptop and installed the fresh windows Vista Home premium. But now I am facing a problem.
My windows load very slowly. When I start my Laptop, after the logo of Windows appear, it takes almost 4-5 minutes to load the Destop and the Secreen shows the message "Please Wait".
Before recovery it never took such a long time. It's been onliy 1 month I have bought it.
Can any body tell me please what is the actualy problem?

I am very happy you are satisfied now. Many times on this forum I wrote about right OS configuration.
Anyway, Tempro is nice application and useful for people with low level of notebook knowledge who need some help with updates and notebook monitoring. In my opinion this can just confuse notebook owners with different messages and upgrade notifications.
I recommend you to remove it from the system. Believe me with les such background running processes and applications your notebook will run better and more stabile.
For years I use Avira Antivir and it the best solution. It runs in the background, doesnt need many resources and make updates automatically. You can get it for free under http://www.free-av.com/
Latest version is 9.00.
If you have more questions please let me know.
Bye and good luck.

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>Pls can u mention precisely what all are useless softwares in my laptop......
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My sister bought a Satellite C855-1GN installed with Win7 64-bit last December (typical - 4 days out of guarantee now) and for sometime has found it getting slower and slower.
She asked me to take a look at it for her, and she is quite right, this laptop is appalling unresponsive for even the most basic of tasks like opening Windows Explorer, which takes over a minute to open.
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I went to bed, then to work for the day, and it still hadn't finished until I'd been home for a couple of hours.
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Hi
In the past we have discussed many times about similar issues and some people were not satisfied about performance of brand new notebooks preinstalled with original recovery image.
As small example you can check this thread. Generally speaking there is described what you should do with this machine. You must, I like to use word optimize, preinstalled operating system. It will definitely run better and faster.
Other way there can also be problem with HDD. If your sister likes this machine I recommend you a small investment in new hardware. Exchange HDD with SSD. SSDs are not so expensive anymore so you can buy one, I would say, with 250GB and I think it is enough free space for their work.
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