Q: super slow start up

Are you running any anti-virus software, what items are listed in 'login items'? Is this a new development? Has the slow startup happened since adding some new software? If you could flesh out the details more it might offer some clues.

Try the suggestions in my Mac Performance Guide.

sweetvhic wrote:

So can you please tell me where we can find the "login items"?

System Preferences>Accounts (possibly called Users & Groups)>Login Items.

Also you could try this: System Preferences>Startup Disk - select Macintosh HD and click on restart. Sometimes the OS can lose its way when trying to find a startup disk causing slow boot-ups, and this re-establishes the link.

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