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I have a 3 month old Toshiba Satellite laptop with 4GB RAM, i5 processor and a normal HDD (not SSD).
I dual boot with Ubuntu and I use Windows sparingly. However, I noticed that it is painstakingly slow on startup. I have Avast anti-virus installed so viruses shouldn't be a problem.
I suspect it is one of the Toshiba Software which is causing the slowness. There are quite a few and I'm not sure what to try to disable.
Any Toshiba users have a clue what is the resource hog here?
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Give Soluto a try. I quote Scott Hanselman: "It analyses all the things that happen during your system's boot and rearranges, delays, defers and speeds up your boot by analyzing what worked for everyone else using the tool." AutoRuns is another good tool.
– Jeff B – 2012-12-19T15:17:57.2171
You could also try CCleaner to get rid of all the debris on the system first http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
– Simon – 2012-12-19T19:23:50.863