Is the window destop the microsoft screen? Sorry for the dah, When I power up The first thing that happen is my Compaq screen comes up and stays up for about 1minute, no F10 or esc or ctrl, alt ,delete will change the screen. after the 1 minute it will power up to the microsoft window and so forth. Hope the sheds more light on the problem, Thanks, Steve.
OK, so it is just taking a long time to get the the desktop (where all the icons are located) so you can start using the computer. Your hard drive may be getting full, or you may have too many programs trying to start when you turn on the computer, or it may be a setting in the BIOS, or a virus.
Has the computer gradually become slower to start, or did this happen all of the sudden? If it happened suddenly, what change did you make just before the slow down (did you install a new Windows update, a new program, a new drive or expansion card)?
Sorry for all the questions. Perfect and i have to figure out the cause before we can propose a solution.
Doc