>>69953>After all, my PC is taking longer to start up for some reason. I don't have full memory though I did do some driver updates which helped, but it never completely went away…While it is slightly possible that you might be suffering from some kind of malware that isn't picked up by a decent malware scanner/remover, far more likely if you are running any version of windows is that you are hitting the inevitable build up of crap in the operating system from its normal operation. This has been a known issue with windows from all the way back in version 3.1.
While there are ways of cleaning it up and mitigating the effect, long term the only solution on any version of windows in active use has been to do a clean reinstall & update & reinstall of only the software you actually use.
How often you might need to do it depends on just how you are using the computer and how much slowdown you are willing to tolerate.
You can also run into issues of hardware slowly degrading over time, but unless you keep your system heavily overclocked that only tends to be noticeable over the course of many years.