I have a new toshiba laptop with vista 64 with 4G of ram. It works great but lately it is taking sevearl minutes at startup. As a beginner, what can I do to improve the startup speed. Thanks for any advise!uninstall programs you don't use. programs LOVE to hog STARUP priority.
also try clearing icons off of your desktop you don't use. when my mom use to use this computer, it took 15 minutes to start up.

i removed things from startup, took desktop icons off, used ccleaner(http://www.ccleaner.com/download/downloading). ran like new(more or less )another thing, you can run a HiJack this log from this link and post a log it makes ... http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.htm

Then have evilfantasy, BRONI or some other specialist review the log and help you out. I believe the most common thing to do when your computer takes a long time to boot up is to disable start-up programs..

Click the pearl (START), type RUN into the search box, when it appears in the menu, click on RUN and type MSCONFIG into the box and click "ok"...Next, click on the "start up" tab and then click on "disable all"...then click "ok" and then restart...

It should boot up faster when you restart, and overall, be faster

Of COURSE, you don't have to disable every program, you could be selective...but don't enable anything you don't intend to use....especially right when you turn on the computer