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    MacBook Air 11" Slow Startup

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by nfshp253, Mar 5, 2011.

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    My MacBook Air used to start up in less than 15 seconds. But yesterday, I resized the boot partition in an attempt to extend the Boot Camp partition but I found out later that the Windows partition could not be extended. I then extended the Mac partition back to its original size. From then on, Mac boots up in around 25 seconds, much worse than the original boot time. I've tried repairing permissions 3 times and even reset both PRAM and NVRAM but that didn't help. Can anyone offer me any solutions?
     
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    Oops, I forgot to add that I have only 3 startup items: Growl, Dropbox and iTunesHelper. I'm sure that they were there a week ago when the bootup only took 15 seconds or so.
     
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