Slow start up on my Satellite A660/07U

I have a Toshiba A660/07u computer. It has both windows 32 bit and 64 bit. I prefer to use 64 bit of Windows 7.
The thing is noticed is Windows 7 take a good 2 minutes to get to my desktop. it comes to the desktop in about a minute and then still loads...during this time I cant access anything, if I try to access a program (like ie) it would be no responsive and take a white to recover.
So all in all 1 minute to the desktop (from the moment I press the button) and then another minute on the desktop. Is there something wrong? Do others using the model notice it?
Or is this model only designed to use with 32 bit?
Thanks

Thankd for the reply. I will disable some programs at startup then. I have listed all my startup programs and can someone pelase tell me which are safe to be disabled?
1.Yes HKCU:Run Sidebar C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
2.Yes HKLM:Run SVPWUTIL C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\Utilities\SVPWUTIL.exe SVPwUTIL
3.Yes HKLM:Run HWSetup C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Utilities\HWSetup.exe hwSetUP
4.Yes HKLM:Run KeNotify C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\Utilities\KeNotify.exe
5.Yes HKLM:Run ITSecMng %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\ItSecMng.exe /START
6.Yes HKLM:Run TSleepSrv %ProgramFiles(x86)%\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Sleep Utility\TSleepSrv.exe
8.Yes HKLM:Run ToshibaServiceStation C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Service Station\ToshibaServiceStation.exe /hide:60
9.Yes HKLM:Run TRCMan C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\TRCMan\TRCMan.exe
10.Yes HKLM:Run TWebCamera "C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Web Camera Application\TWebCamera.exe" autorun
11.Yes HKLM:Run NvCplDaemon RUNDLL32.EXE C:\windows\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
12.Yes HKLM:Run TPwrMain %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\Power Saver\TPwrMain.EXE
13.Yes HKLM:Run HSON %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\TBS\HSON.exe
14.Yes HKLM:Run SmoothView %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\SmoothView\SmoothView.exe
16.Yes HKLM:Run 00TCrdMain %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\FlashCards\TCrdMain.exe
17Yes HKLM:Run RtHDVCpl C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe -s
18.Yes HKLM:Run RtHDVBg C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVBg64.exe /FORPCEE3
19.Yes HKLM:Run SynTPEnh %ProgramFiles%\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
20.Yes HKLM:Run ThpSrv C:\windows\system32\thpsrv /logon
21,Yes HKLM:Run Teco "%ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\TECO\Teco.exe" /r
22.Yes HKLM:Run TosSENotify C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA HDD SSD Alert\TosWaitSrv.exe
23.Yes HKLM:Run TosWaitSrv %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\TPHM\TosWaitSrv.exe
24.Yes HKLM:Run SmartFaceVWatcher %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\SmartFaceV\SmartFaceVWatche r.exe
25.Yes HKLM:Run TosVolRegulator C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TosVolRegulator\TosVolRegulator.exe
26.Yes HKLM:Run TosNC %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\BulletinBoard\TosNcCore.exe
27.Yes HKLM:Run TosReelTimeMonitor %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\ReelTime\TosReelTimeMonitor .exe*

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firstly thanks for your time.
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All you people looking here on this dead thread.....
Toshiba A660 laptops are renowned for having hard drive fails and boot up problems after grinding to a halt.
My solution (after losing 3 hard drives [and a terabyte of family treasured times]) is the following.
Use MALWAREBYTES (free download and use for 28 days)
Scan and fix. Mine found over 300 trojans that 2013 Norton 360 could not find.
Re-boot into safe mode.
SCAN again.
Re-boot and empty the malwarebytes repair files it retains...
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Make a back-up repair disc. Ooooops......no you cant...........at least my laptop can`t.
I don`t know why.....
Tell me tosh..... why does windows x64 refuse to allow me to make a system boot disc (even though the laptop is all driver updated and Windows updated)?
Uninstall MalwareBytes when Norton/McAfee tells you there will be a conflict between the two programs.
It tells you to re-boot after uninstalling it.
Then when it re-boots you get a black screen. You cannot even get to bios. You think ytour laptop is turned into a brick frisbee. You pull out the battery in frustration after five minutes.
You replace and re-boot....but again you get no bios or boot up.... you think its destroyed the Bios or graphics somehow....youo can hear the hard-drive but you have no clue whats going on..
Around this time you shake the laptop in frustration.....
Calm down.
Switch on and leave FIFTEEN MINUTES....Ten of which will be a Black nothing screen with maybe a single white underscore line in the top left corner.LEAVE IT ALONE.
Make a sunday dinner for ten people....When you go back to the computer it will be up and running.
When you re-boot again, it will be dead black for five minutes...then boots up... you still think it has a problem... LEAVE IT.
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I have lost three hard drives and thousands of Gigabytes of treasured family memories discovering the secret the hard way.
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