Originally Posted by
magpienja
LR...when you say hard drive maybe getting full.....the HDD is 1TB.....its showing 730gb free out of 930gb.....how does that sound.
That is nowhere near full and, by itself, should not be causing any problems. Only when you are down to your last 10 GB or so free, will the hard drive capacity start becoming a problem.
I would follow what Saab and Loose suggest, and also check the task manager. You might find that something is taking up a lot of CPU time when you switch on. In my case, drop box was using lots of CPU resources during start-up, but I rarely use drop box.
You might find there is an App you have forgotten about but which uses CPU time at start-up - you might be able to uninstall that type of thing.
Check the boot file, because there might be something in there that you rarely use, but the CPU has to use up time preparing it. You might be able to move some rarely used programmes out of the boot file.
*only do this if you know what you're doing *.
The programmes will still be in your computer but they won't start up when you switch on. If you ever need one of those programmes, it will take a little longer to start up when you click it, but that's probably not a problem.
A final thought is that many PCs will check for updates when they switch on. This is very important to do for cyber security, but it doesn't need to be done on start-up. You should be able to chose when updates happen, and have the PC ask you first - rather than it doing so automatically.