Afternoon all, My desktop is a HP Pavilion with Win7 Home. The pc boots up ok and after about 1 minute the Welcome page appears. After about another 30 sec's of the Welcome page the screen goes black. Nothing showing at all except the mouse pointer in the centre of the screen. The disk indicator light on the front of the pc is going mad. The screen is black for about 2 min's. then the desktop appears with all the icons. There is a further period of about 3 min's before I can get on line. What I have done is: Virus scan using Avast Scanned with SAS, Run CC Scanned with Spybot S&D Scaned with Malwarebytes anti malware All the above are feebies. System Restore. I didn't have much luck there because I got the message System restore failed while restoring the registry from the restore point. The restore point was damaged or deleted duribg the restore. In Safe Mode I tried Repair My Computer. No Luck. Using Task Manager and followed onscreen instructions resulting in looking online for an update to a driver. The result was that the most update driver was installed. I can't help but feel there is a hardware issue here. Any help will be much appreciated.