AN515-57 Having problems with slow startup. Can anyone help?

Harry01

Not insanely slow just hangs much longer at start up on the Acer logo showing the circular loading icon. Normally from restart, unless it's updating it's barely more than a second on this logo. I've tried resetting, uninstalling bloatware after, checking that high resources startup programs are disabled. I thought I saw on windows defender that there was some malware it couldn't get rid of but when I then reset it, it comes preloaded with Norton which found nothing so I have no idea what it relates to.

I was just getting to a stage where I felt like I knew how to troubleshoot problems like graphic driver issues by uninstalling and reinstalling. Here I have no idea.

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]

JackE

>>>But I get an error message when I try [alt F10]>>> What I found when I reset it was that a few programs have to be reinstalled.>>>

If you get an error wiht ALT+F10, then why do you think it was reset?