Slow boot up.

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Hey guys,

Im having an issue lately where its taking quite a while to boot up. The initial booting of the pc and windows itself is fine and still pretty sharp but it takes an age after that to load anything else up, I have a small number of other programs that load on startup and they typically take a good 30 seconds or more after windows has booted up. In that time my internet connection doesn't work and trying to launch anything else will just take forever. Its like a bottleneck has appeared all of a sudden.

I appreciate its likely something may be going down the pan in my machine as its all over 3 years old now (think its likely to be 4 or over) so ill be upgrading anyway.

Would this likely be a simple RAM dying issue or similar?

All the programs including windows that struggle to load after windows is up and going are on a singular SSD.

Accessing the other HDD's in the computer whilst the other stuff on the SSD are still 'booting' results in long loading times for that content also.
 
Nothing that would make it seem obvious why its taking a while to boot up. Nothing has been added to the startup that I havn't had on it for over 2 or so years yet theres a definite difference it loadup.
 
You might have already done this but have you ran a virus/malware scanner?

In my experience hardware dying has shown other symptoms, like pc crashing etc. You could run memtest for example to check for hardware issues.
 
Interestingly I just reverted my graphics card driver back to a previous version due to my driver crashing frequently when gaming and my boot up since then has been back to normal. Im guessing there was some sort of issue with it being a beta driver.

Thanks again Wazza your quickly becoming my OCUK hero!
 
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