E6400 long start up

Have a week old E6400 running Win 7 (64 bit pro), with 2.8 processor and Nvidia graphics with 4 gigs of ram. So far runs great and no complaints so it carries on in the D620 and D630 traditions. BUT it takes just over two minutes from turn on until I get the Windows logo. That seems a bit long...very long. Anyone else experiencing this or been able to speed up the post?

Andrew

 

What anti-virus are you running? How much of the Dell ControlPoint software is installed? (I use just the power management module).

John

PS: I changed the thread title to E6400 since that is what is in your post.

 

i just timed mine: 85sec to be exact from power on button to the time i cirlcle orb is finish, i can press start button or just simply launching my computer or google chrome

i only have 3 apps check on ms config:
microsoft security essentials
alps pointing device
dell control point system manager

but i have 67 processes at 12% cpu usage after it boots up


specs:
e6400 p8600, 4gb ddr800. intel graphics on win764bit

 

It took Dell two tries but on the second try they nailed it. Bios wasn't set to 'fast boot'. Once that was changed the E6400 booted in about three seconds.

A