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18 July 2012, 02:23 PM

peter zippy reid

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Laptop problem

Hi my daughters laptop is sitting on the windows logo for about ten mins on start up anyone know why

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18 July 2012, 05:51 PM

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Virus/ hard drive fault/ hardware fault.

Will it boot into safe mode?

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18 July 2012, 05:54 PM

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It eventually boots just takes 10 mins goes from logo to black screen then 2mins later it works

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18 July 2012, 07:12 PM

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Do a Harddisc error check scan on it. Then defrag. Check free space is ok. Check swapfile hasn't been set to a ridiculously high amount.

Is it win7 or something else?

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18 July 2012, 07:23 PM

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Yes windows 7

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18 July 2012, 08:14 PM

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Usually it's simply a lack of hard drive space. As the free space gets smaller, the paging file dynamically adjusts to decreasing free space. Try freeing up as much space as possible and then run a defrag. This is just a starting point and take it from there..