XPS M1530 Startup problems

Hello, I bought my xps like a year ago. I didnt experience any major problems till now.

Recently, my laptop is taking a lot of time to startup. First, when i press the power button, before i get to see the user selection screen i have to wait like for 2 minutes in a black screen. Then it usually takes another minute to get through the Welcome Screen.

After that, it takes like 2-3 minutes before I can begin using my computer. I have checked my start up programs and disabled most of them, but it doesnt seem to do something.

I have a cousin with the same computer that me and with the same startup progams and he gets a very fast startup and he didnt have to do anything.

Please anyone can help me with this?

Thanks

 

I would suggest backing up your documents, pics, music, etc and then just do a clean OS install. This tends to correct 98% of system slowdowns.

 

You can opt to follow BatBoy's suggestion with a clean OS install. That should definitely provide a fix.

However, if you don't want to go through the whole backing up thing just yet, you can try to System Restore your 1530 back to a date when it had normal startup time. That might help, given that you set restore points before, or didn't adjust any of the scheduled restore-points Vista automatically does.