Driver cleaners.

Azarathal · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:30

Heya guys, my pc is very slow at booting and loading desktop, once its fully booted it seems to run nice and quick. I've done the usual (virus scans, defrag, cleaned temp etc) and it hasnt seemed to help.

It started being slow about 3-4weeks into a fresh install and apart from things like photoshop, itunes, CCC and msn I haven't instaled much (games are all on an external.)

I'm thinking it might be a driver issue? I'm going to try a driver cleaning program but I'm unsure of which to use, can anyone recommend me one?

Thanks, Mikey.

KIA · 17 Dec 2011 at 20:58

msconfig > startup

reflux · 17 Dec 2011 at 20:59

Unlikely to be drivers, and any 'cleaning' you'd do would likely bork it up further.

MSCONFIG is a good place to start

Azarathal · 18 Dec 2011 at 00:49

The only two things I have in startup are msn and CCC. I've been using pcs for 7years and I'd usually have no problem diagnosing this kinda thing.

KIA · 18 Dec 2011 at 12:46

Azarathal said:
The only two things I have in startup are msn and CCC. I've been using pcs for 7years and I'd usually have no problem diagnosing this kinda thing.

iTunes should have an entry under Startup. How did you install it?

There's also C:\Users\your_user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Azarathal · 20 Dec 2011 at 15:12

I disabled and deleted the entry for itunes, I also have nothing in that folder.

theheyes · 20 Dec 2011 at 20:24

Games are on an external hard drive?

skyripper · 20 Dec 2011 at 20:27

Check out Soluto which will time everythind that happens during boot and report back