Hi Mo and George - The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv9700 notebook computer. Processor is Intel[r] core[tm]2 duo cpu t9300 @ 2.50ghz 2.50 ghz Memory [ram] 4.00 gb 32 bit operating system. Thanks for any further help - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Mobeen Iqbal To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:27 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: the time it takes From turning on to desk top Hi Andy. Could you provide full specifications of your laptop? that might go some way to providing an explanation. all the best, Mo. On 27/11/2012 13:21, George Bell wrote: How much memory does the laptop have, Andy? George. From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 27 November 2012 13:18 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] the time it takes From turning on to desk top Hi all - I did a time check this morning for the time it takes from actually turning on the laptop, to accessing the desk top with JAWS13. Here's what I found: Time taken from turning on to hearing start up music for Vista, 70 seconds, approx. Time taken from hearing Vista start up music to JFW speaking the log-on screen, 2 minutes, approx. Time taken from entering log-on password, to desk top where JAWS announces "JAWS is ready...", 80 seconds, approx. So, a total time of about 4.5 minutes. Do others find this consistent with their booting/logging on experience? It feels rather long to me, I am only allowing a handful of apps to load at start up, but it might be that Avast is doing a boottime scan ahead of my log on, so, it would be interesting to hear how long it takes other peoples machines to reach the desk top, both those with Avast installed, and those without it - Andy