How long for AntiVirus to start

Hi

Difficult to answer, would be great to be sitting at your PC, but the issue is likely to be in the anount of startups you have in applications like antivirus etc that boot with your PC.

Do you only have one Antivirus installed now, and one Firewall? if not then uninstall the ones you do not wish to keep as multiple applications of the same ilk will slow your PC down, please also name all the security applications you have installed.

Now narrowing this list of startups down is a start in trying to get your PC to boot as quick as possible (amount of RAM, the CPU you have and how much HDD space is left can all contribute to a slow booting PC) at to that end grab yourself CCLeaner from HERE and install, then run its cleaner and then the registry cleaner (registry one until no items are left to remove) then click Tools > Startup and then click the Save to text file link at the bottom and save the file to your desktop.

Then attach your startup log to your next post as per these instructions HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post

and we will be able to weed out the not needed startups from your list, this should help boot your PC quicker, then what we can do is use Startup Delayer to delay a few of the needed applications to different startup times, this will allow your PC to not get bogged down trying to load everything at once.

 

Hi

Cheers for the info, what I would try is to boot into Safe Mode (F8 at boot) and see if your PC boots quicker? if so then using StartupCPL (this is the standalone version so no installing) and disable Pop Peeper and see if your PC boots quicker? if so use Startup Delayer to delay that startup by say 30secs.

40secs is not too shabby really for a PC to boot.

 

Hi

Most startups and services wont work in Safe Mode so that can be normal, all safe mode is, is a test to see if your PC starts any quicker or not than normal mode, I just wanted to know if it did start quicker with bare bones services etc starting as it could possibly tell us if something else is giving your PC some slowness on boot.

But I woudl imagine that it was no real difference is the boot speed.

I would though just disable pop peeper (do you have it set to manage multiple email services and addresses?) to see if it adds to a slower boot and as I mentioned set with Startup Delayer it do start 30secs later as that should give your AV enough time to load and check for updates.

May just in delaying that app give you a slightly quicker boot, worth a try.