OK, basic stuff, but we can't all, ahem, be experts.. Please can somebody tell me why my laptop has recently started to take 10, 15 or even 20 minutes to crank up? It used to be almost instant, maybe 5 mins. Now, while the desktop comes up as usual, it's ages before it will let me do anything. Attempts just get egg-timered. It doesn't make the usual chundering noise, just sits there and won't do diddly.
It doesn't do it every time; sometimes it's quite quick like before, but 8 times out of 10 it does.
Don't understand what I could have done to cause this.
What might it be and is there anything I can do about it? Life is too short. Thanks.