Q: My PC boots very slowly. How can I speed it up?
Answer
Some possible remedies for slowly booting PCs:
Lenovo:
- Disable Wake on LAN in BIOS - Hit Enter 3 times to get to this setting
- Disable unneeded startup processes using msconfig - some of the worst are
- Skype
- Weatherbug
- HP printer management and update programs
- Instant Messaging software
- Miscellaneous software updaters (leave Sophos, Java and Acrobat updates)
- Remove obsolete network drive mappings
- Disable Sophos full drive scan at boot - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
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