Why does it take 5 minutes to boot up?

Why does y Macbook air takes more than 5 minutes to boot up?

There are a couple of things you can do.
#1: perform a safe boot. shut down your computer and after you hit the power button, hold down the shift key until you get to the login screen.
#2 got to system preferences > startup disk (under system) > then select Macintosh HD then hit restart.
#3 go the the apple logo in the top left-hand corner and select shut down. uncheck the box that says to reopen windows when powered back up.
Hopefully this helps, but if it doesn't, you should take it to apple because that is not normal!

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