not sure if this is the right place to ask.
my new laptop studio 15, with i7 740, 4G
seems to have a very long boot up time.
it goes on average 1.5mins, up to as long
as 2m. sometimes its slightly over 1m.
this is not normal right?

i have only installed few programmes such as
office, msn, mozilla & itunes.

please advise, thanks!

how do i check the uninstalled bloatware?
i have disabled the startup apps except for mcafee.
and the technician asked me to disable windows update as well.
i am getting really frustrated.

don't know much about which is better, but the McAfee comes with the laptop
and it was 3 years so i thought might as well use it. It's really not that good?
It's legal Windows 7, but the Dell support asked me to choose No Updates
as he was saying that can cause some problems. I tried that option but didn't
seem to help speed things up.


yes I saw a lot of Dell softwares but am not sure which one to remove. Just
afraid I may remove some important programmes that may affect the laptop.
Any advice here please?

Thanks!

i have no idea, he just said that will cause some problems to the systems.
he even claimed that studio 15 is a touch screen! scary huh...
anyways i have changed the setting back to automatically update.

issit true that McAfee is a los a bloatware that hogs the memory?
can i disable it but not uninstall to check the boot up time?