Today I removed my motherboard to acces to bottom so I could remove the chip fan. When I put everything back together, startup took very long, most of the time spent on the Windows Loading screen with the blue loading bar.
I thought that it' s probably this slow because it's installing the hardware that i removed which it did.
But it's still very slow. It spends just under a minute with the blue loading bar, then my wallpaper shows with no icons for a while then eventually the icons appear.
I ran every scanner I have, AVG, Anti Spyway/Adware etc and removed some Apyware threats. Still the same. I also ran Registry Mechanic which found some stuff but still slow startup.
I have an 80GB HDD with around 35GB of free space. All fans are fine and my rig is virtually dust free as of today.






















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