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slow start up and blank screen

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for the last few days my laptop has been taking ages to start up and the screen stays blank for ages......any ideas what this can be and how i could fix it..

i have taken off the free avg virus thingy as that seem to make it take even longer to get started... any other free ones to recommend??

i also have the crap cleaner which i use every time i am switching off!!

thanx
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  • j_davies
    j_davies Posts: 697 Forumite
    jane_72 wrote:
    for the last few days my laptop has been taking ages to start up and the screen stays blank for ages......any ideas what this can be and how i could fix it..

    i have taken off the free avg virus thingy as that seem to make it take even longer to get started... any other free ones to recommend??

    i also have the crap cleaner which i use every time i am switching off!!

    thanx

    Yeah its probably best to turn off that antivirus thingy and that cleaner as you really need a virus just to make sure if those to things worked at all :rolleyes:

    I would reinstall or turn back on both of those programs firstly, now have you any other antivirus programs on the PC aswell? have you a firewall apart from the windows firewall are you using XP? have you installed anything lately thats made the changes thats slowing down your PC?
  • skiddy2k
    skiddy2k Posts: 1,627 Forumite
    Have you installed any programs recently?
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