Satellite L300-1AQ - slow start

I bought one of these a few weeks ago. It takes more than three minutes to boot to the full desktop, I think that it is very poor. A friend has a non-Toshiba, which has a lower spec and it takes a minute. My son (even more low spec) Toshiba takes 1.5 minutes. I've already exchanged this laptop, but the alternative is just as bad - same again without installing any additional software. I contacted the assistance service, but they do not have much help telling me to use MSCONFIG and Google apps could be disabled - I've tried a few, but it made no difference. Most of the time is spent with a screen 'Please wait '.

In my opinion a core 2 processor (T5800) with 2 GB of RAM it not delay it. If I can't get help from Toshiba or here then I will get a refund on this machine - much as I otherwise it - only 3 minutes to the loan is completely unacceptable, especially when it is lower spec machines are so much faster.

Hello

Many people here on this forum have reported the same. My answer is that you need optimal configuration of the operating system. If you have time, please take a look at thread
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=134947 where I described my experience with slow start.

Please don't be confused because I write any other laptop model. In general this slow start is not mobile specific problem.

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