Boot Up Time Optimization

[Yakl]

Dear intelligent ThinkPad community:


I have recently purchased a T410 with 128GB SSD and the boot up time seems to be a bit lacking compared to the impressive times I’ve seen here. I think the reason behind this goes to system optimization, considering my T410 is fairly stock. I also have Windows Live and Skype always as startup programs and can’t seem to get around that. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Startup times for similar configurations would also be spectacular.


Thank you all for your time in advance!
Good day

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