After owning my computer for a little over two months I noticed the system was sluggish.
Me: “My system’s really slow on bootup.”
Tech Support: “Have you been on the net for a long time?”
Me: “Well, yeah, about a month or two.”
Tech Support: “Try deleting the cache. Oh, and do you have a virus scanner?”
Me: “Yes, it was the first thing I put on the hard drive.”
Tech Support: “Oh, get rid of it. That’s the problem. Those virus scanners screw things up on your disk. Get rid of it.”
Me: “Isn’t that risky?”
Tech Support: “And you’ll have to format your hard drive with Quick Reinstall. That’s really all I know.”
Me: “Um…sure. Sure I will.”
A friend cleaned up my system path, and the boot lag cleared right up. And guess what? I didn’t have to format my hard drive after all.