Laptop takes ages to start

Just_Passing_Bi

I have an acer 5536 laptop, with Windows 7 & IE 11 installed.

For the last few day's it can take up to an hour to boot the laptop up, i.e. I'm constantly pressing the start button, once booted it runs OK.

Anyone have an idea what's causing the laptop so long to boot up?

pendragon_arther

There are several possibilities.

Run CCleaner to clear out crap files. Run Malwarebytes in case of trojans. Type msconfig into RUN and disable any startup items not required. Defrag with Auslogics and use the 'optimise' option to close up data for faster reading...

arrallas

I think this could be a bigger problem than would be sorted by a clean up and defrag. I would want to run a CHKDSK to rule out any hdd problems first.

J_B

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Type msconfig into RUN and disable any startup items not required. ...

Personally, I prefer to use the 'start up' tab in CCleaner for this..

Just_Passing_Bi

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Run CCleaner to clear out crap files

Done, no effect

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Run Malwarebytes in case of trojans

Done, no effect

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Type msconfig into RUN and disable any startup items not require

Done, no effect

pendragon_arther wrote: »

Defrag with Auslogics and use the 'optimise' option to close up data for faster reading...

Not sure how to do that

Knarf44

Agree with post number #3, sounds to me that your hard disk has possibly developed some bad sectors which is usually the first sign of it failing.

Suggest you copy any important files you can to a USB memory stick, blank dvd or external hard disk while you can, then run chkdsk (instructions follow - see link):

http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2641432

If that doesn't fix it and all your malware scans have come up clean I would suggest you download the free trial of a program called HD Tune from the following link:

http://www.hdtune.com/

Once it's installed, open it and run a Health scan by clicking on the health tab and then start. If it has more than 2 or 3 bad blocks I suggest replacing the hard drive.

Did you make the recovery disks your laptop would have prompted you to make when you first got it?

Just_Passing_Bi

Knarf44 wrote: »

Did you make the recovery disks your laptop would have prompted you to make when you first got it?

Yes Knarf44

Just_Passing_Bi

I tried the health check, but cannot see the start icon

Knarf44 wrote: »

If it has more than 2 or 3 bad blocks I suggest replacing the hard drive

Using the "Error Scan" it's found 2 damaged blocks:

3 - Error at 31302 MB (LBA 64106720)
4 - Error at 31302 MB (LBA 64106848)

Knarf44

Did you run chkdsk, if not do so. It will attempt to move data from the bad sectors to good ones but there's no guarantee it will solve the problem and this disk will eventually fail. How long that takes is any body's guess but please save any important data you have on there now.

It's good you made the recovery disks as they will reinstall your software to a new hard disk back to the day you bought it.

Oh and chkdsk will probably take some time to run.