There’s a great new piece of software that I’ve come across called Soluto.  Once downloaded and installed (it’s free, of course !), next time you boot your PC or laptop, it analyses the boot process and gives you details on how long everything took.  The processes are divided into three sections:  No Brainer, Potentially Removable and Required – cannot be removed.  You can look into details of each process and choose whether to Pause (effectively remove it from your start-up routine), Delay (set it to start up once boot process has completed) or leave things just as they are.  For each process, there is also a description of what the process is and a recommendation of what you should do.

It’s very simple to use, looks great and does a very good job of tweaking your boot time – well worth five minutes of your time !