Imac slow an start up.

[riz]

I have a 2010 intel imac and it takes a minute longer to start up. I have repaired disk permissions and made sure 1/4 of my hard drive is empty and it also has 12gb ram. Is there anything else i can do to speed it up?

I can replace my optical drive with a SSD but it requires me to take my Mac apart which im not too keen on doing.

 

[Ben]

A clean install of the OS would probably help.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

I start mine up about once every few months...

Find the 'sleep' button.

 

[riz]

If I'm doing a clean install, do I need the discs it came with or can Ido it with time machine?

 

[riz]

I found out I can reinstall lion via a menu. But if I'm restoring my data is it best to use Time Machine or Another programme like Carbon copy cloner?

 

[Tom]

What are you trying to achieve?

You wont make it start up any faster by doing a re-install. (Well it might, but it would be marginal - a few seconds at best)
What you need to do is figure out what is causing it to take forever to start up. I suspect its 3 year old hardware in combination with an untidy machine.

I'd take a look at what programs are in the login items in users and groups, verify and repair the disk from the recovery discs/software not the disk utility within the OS then run a maintenance program; Onyx and Clean my mac are both good.

Personally i'd do this in conjunction with sleep mode, there's no need to do anything else.