choppy start up

Hello,
A year ago I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1545 witbh Windows Vista SP1 Home premium installed. Back in October, I upgraded to W7 and I have no real major problem or complaints...


However, Over the last 2 months something has been happening. It bears no impact on the functionality of the computer itself or the OS, but it's just annoying me. Before, when I would boot the computer, boot was clean, fast, and smooth.

Now, the boot is not so fast, it can take upwards to a minute to boot and the boot sequence is choppy. For instance, it goes to the Starting Windows screen, and it takes forever here, at its worst 20 seconds, than when it passes this screen the blank goes black, flashes a solid grey color than back to black. For a few seconds, about 15, it is just black and all i see is a cursor. Eventually, it goes to the Please wait page than to welcome. Sometimes, I don't even see please wait, it just goes straight to welcome. Once it loads the desktop, there is no smooth transition to the desktop. The screen goes black, stays black for a few seconds and than the desktop appears but in segments...

It's not a big issue and the cpu works smoothly after this, but I'm just getting a bit annoyed with it. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to make the boot a little smoother?

Thanks.

 

Do you have a USB hub attached? Or something along the lines of that? (Like an external HDD or a usb stick attached) ..If so, pull it out at start up and see if there is any difference in start up time / BIOS load up time. Do this one by one and eliminate any. Or pull them all out and see...

On a side not if that fails then...

The more start-up progs you have the slower your PC will boot up.

Now I am not sure as to how this would have an effect on the time spent on the BIOS screen as opposed to time spent loading Windows but may be your machine is slow at finding files to boot up / when in BIOS?

Obviously you should start with the basics like defragging your machine..using CCleaner to get rid of junk, stopping unnecessary progs from starting up.

If that fails then go to your laptop/PC's manufacturers website, go to the driver / support section and see if there is an updated BIOS you can flash.

If not, then your best bet is to reinstall your operating system so you can start of nice and fresh and see if that was an issue?

 

A couple of things here. First, every single windows installation will become slower on startup over time as you add more files and programs to it. That being said, @jusT2exy is right that the more programs that startup with the computer, the slower it will be.

Go to start and in the search bar write msconfig hit enter. A little menu with some tabs will open. There go to the startup tab. You will see a list of all processes that currently start with the computer. BE CAREFUL, but uncheck all that you really don't need (e. g. Adobe Updater, Itunes, One Note, Itunes Helper) things like this. Stay away from things like Win 7 operating system, anything that says graphics, quickset, and such. After finished reboot and done. It should at least help some.

Also, try to single out if you've added any program in that time that might have caused the change.