New computer takes long time to start up is this normal?

[Claymoresama]

I just purchased a Hp pavilion touchsmart 15 notebook from Costco and I'm concerned with how long it takes to boot up. So this computer has an A10-5745m quad core cpu with 8gb of ram and a 1tb hdd. This hard drive is a regular laptop hard drive not an SSD. My boot up time takes a few seconds before I see the HP logo then it says please wait and takes a while then i click on the lock screen and i get the please wait thing again for a little bit. Then finally I'm in and everything is slow for a moment then the computer gets going. Is this normal? The pc has 8.1 out of the box and I'm just concerned that maybe something is wrong with it.

 

[bryonhowley]

Sounds like you have allot of useless crap loading at startup. HP and others install alot of crap by default. If you can get a plain Windows 8.1 DVD and install it. That will get rid of all of the startup crap. If not use Add-Remove Programs to get rid of as much as you can.

 

[Claymoresama]

Sounds like you have allot of useless crap loading at startup. HP and others install alot of crap by default. If you can get a plain Windows 8.1 DVD and install it. That will get rid of all of the startup crap. If not use Add-Remove Programs to get rid of as much as you can.

I did but I proceeded to remove all of the bloatware when I first started up the computer. My boot time is roughly a minute and a half on average according to a program that I use. Is that a good amount of time for startup.