Question Programs boot very slow, but faster afterwards

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I tried everything I can think of. I reseted the pc, chkdsk, scf /scannow, crystaldiskinfo. No bad sector and no corrupted file. Some games and programs takes up to 2min, when first booting. It is faster next time (2-14sec depending on the app). It's fairly an old computer,

i7-4701HQ
gtx 860m
16gb ram

What can be the cause of this? What should I check for?
 

Abhinav2005

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HDD. Normal, because it is old, or normal because it is hdd? I mean, yes, hdds are slow but, they are not "opens the chrome in 14s at first" slow, right?
What HDD do you have? How much space is free?
14 second seems bit slow, but if you open chrome just after booting PC then its normal because has lot of startup apps to load also. Even my SSD suffers sometimes and it takes 2-3 sec.
 

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What HDD do you have? How much space is free?
14 second seems bit slow, but if you open chrome just after booting PC then its normal because has lot of startup apps to load also. Even my SSD suffers sometimes and it takes 2-3 sec.
wdc wd10s21x-24r1bt0-sshd-8gb, 600MB free. In general yes, just after bootup, but it is somewhat same after few minutes of the bootup.