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Any Idea on why my mouse is slowing down my boot time?

First step is to check your BIOS Settings, when I upgraded to Windows 8 on my Dell my function keys did not work because they were set to Multimedia keys and I didn't have the software for it, check around and see if there is anything on there, to access your BIOS hit F2 on startup. Secondly...

I have remarked the post as unsolved since the problem is happening again because of the mouse, details in first post.

Dude, you are awesome, this actually fixed it, Thank you so much for spending your time to work out how to fix it! All it needed was a reset! - My overall boot time is faster too, now 30 seconds compared to 1:08 Can't thank you enough, now I will mark the thread as solved!

I updated my BIOS like a year ago when I had Windows 7, I have also reset the BIOS settings and disabled Intel Speedstep. I will look if I have some extended memory test going on.

Guys this has been happening since I installed Windows 8, so I don't think It's a software Issue, dell won't let me Reinstall my BIOS because it's up to date, so I don't know what to do I might try testing the system to see if everything works fine, because maybe it's the Optical Drive which is...

I have removed all startup entries before I made this post, but It's been happening as soon as I've installed Windows 8, maybe I need to reinstall my BIOS. And I have done defragging, yes. I didn't think there would be an easy answer to this, I will re-install my BIOS and see if that makes a...

It says in the above post my BIOS is up to date.

My Mouse is slowing down my boot time. This post has been edited now I have found what is causing the problem. Okay, so this same post 4 days ago was me saying that my boot had been slowing down after updating to Windows 8, The Dell Logo at the start was taking 20 seconds to load when it...