[System] Very long boot to Desktop appearance time

[Snowhog]

Granted, my laptop is ancient: HP Pavilion g7, 4 x Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M380 @ 2.53GHz, 8 GiB of RAM; but the time from power on to the Desktop takes a VERY long time.

Would appreciate a look at both files and get your observations/suggestions on what I might do to reduce the time it is taking.

[claydoh]

I don't see an immediate cause, but *everything* is taking ages. No one thing seems to be a cause, even the critical chain looks ok, in relation to the overall time things are taking.

Is this a spinning rust HDD? That's the first thing I'd look at. Maybe it's just slowing down from old age?

[Snowhog]

Is this a spinning rust HDD?

Why, yes, it is.

But it didn't used to take this long. If you don't see anything that jumps out at you, I'm perfectly fine. I don't generally power the laptop off; it is one of three PCs in my office, and I keep it on, as I do the other two. Two of them get logged out and put to sleep. My iMac just has the screen turned off.

[claydoh]

I don't think it is normal, tbh. But maybe it needs a filesystem check or health check.