I recently did some standard maintenance on my computer (empty recycle bin & temp int files, check disk, defrag, etc.Before I did these chores my computer would take about 2 minutes to completely boot. Now it takes over 10 minutes and I cannnot figure out why. I did a system restore to no avail, but it will only allow me to go back one month which is right around the time I did the maintenance.
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