Samsung laptop hangs on desktop at startup

[aishetty]

My laptop has windows 7 home premium and Intel core i5 and till yesterday was working fine but today it takes an hour to boot up till the login screen and another hour for the welcome screen to clear. Even after the desktop screen appears I can't click an any of the icons or even the start button. How do I solve this problem? My laptop seems pretty useless in this mode......

 

[kapitalistas]

you wanna boot in safe mode (on start by hitting F8)with network and make virus scan and reboot.

 

[tomr4lph]

Try it in safe mode, if it works in safe mode, it may be something on startup that is causing it to slow down. Also try running checkdisk if safe mode does work.

To use safemode, turn off the computer. Turn on the computer and keep tapping F8. A menu should appear and then you can stop tapping F8. Highlight the first Safe Mode option and press enter. It will boot into safe mode.

To run checkdisk, open command prompt (It should be in the start menu, or press Windows+R and type cmd, then press enter) and type "chkdsk <Drive>: /f /r" where <Drive> is the letter assigned to your drive. It may ask if you want to check the disk at the next boot, type Y and press enter if it does. It will take a while to scan and repair your drive, but once this is done, it may speed up your computer again. If not, return here for more advice.

 

[sora]

Which model is it exactly? Your harddrive may be corrupt.