There is nothing worse than a computer that takes a long time to load up. When you first got the computer, the boot up was a smooth process. It would load a minimum amount of programs and seemed to be under 30 seconds. After awhile, the boot up would get longer and longer, until now it takes up to 3 to 4 minutes for it to be ready. You may start to wonder what has happened since then, but it is not a big mystery. There are certain changes that you have made to the computer that has caused the boot up to slow down to this extreme. We will go over this later in the article. Things that you might have done to slow down the boot up process of your computer are numerous but most involve the same basic actions. Once we have identified what you might have done, we will then walk with you and tell you how you can reverse this problem. 

    The first thing that a lot of people will say when they notice that the boot up is slower, is that they didn’t do anything so why is this happening? They haven’t changed anything that might have caused it, so it shouldn’t be slowing down like this. But the reality is, they are part of the problem. It may be unwittingly on their part but it is still the case that they had something to do with it, at least in 90% of the cases. Whenever you install a program and you do not check to see what permissions that is asking you for, you are part of the problem. The main reason that a computer starts to slow down over time, is that the person installs more and more programs to the computer. A lot of these programs ask for permission to run at the start up time. Of course, when you give enough programs this type of permission, they will start to slow down the computer when it is trying to boot up.

If you want to solve this problem, make sure that you only give a few select programs the permission to start when the computer boots up. To eliminate some of the programs that are starting on boot up, type in msconfig in your search bar when you hit the start button. It will open up a program that has for you several tabbed options. Click on the startup tab and make a choice on what programs you want running as soon as the computer boots up. This will help you alleviate 90% of your problem. 

    Also there are times when there might be a problem of the computer becoming infected with an unknown virus or Trojan. If your computers boot up time is slow and you can not see the program listed in the task manager, then there is a good chance that your computer might infected. Run an anti virus over your entire computer. This will help get whatever is in there, out of your system.
 
    So to make sure that your computer has a healthy boot up time, keep the amount of programs that run on start up, low. Also make sure that there are no viruses or other malware in the system. One last tip is to defrag your hard drive on a regular basis. This will help your computer find separated files easier. That will also improve the start up time.