I have WINDOWS 7 64 bit system that used to start up fast , now something has happened and it takes LIKE forever for the startup to load,
I have checked for spyware and viruses and what I have found I removed but it still starts up slow does anyone have any hints as to why I am having this PROBLEM, ps I have disabled a lot of programs that start up, and really do not know what else to do, the startup processes I checked I don't understand what they are and am afraid to disable the ones I don't know so any help would be apriciated
thanksOpen msconfig and on the General tab choose "selective startup" (uncheck all three ITEMS) and reboot. Does the problem still occur? If not, start adding items back to msconfig one or two at a time, rebooting after each change, until the problem reappears and you'll have identified the offending process. This is clearly a time consuming process, but it is the best way to determine if some process loading with the system is the cause of your problem.I will try that and let you know what happens, sounds like a good idea, I do have one more question, would having temporary files in the browser cause this too?  I have ie 9 and I checked it out with pc pitstop and it said I had over 11 mb  of temporary files, I deleted them but they keep showing up
so this is what I thought might be causing the problem also. noI want to thank you for your help, I guess I had windows firewall enabled that was dragging me down and some roxio processes , since I already had a norton firewall I didn't need the windows firewall enabled so again thank you very much for your help!
r erwin
 ; this one is solved! You're welcome