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Reduce the number of programs that start up when you switch on the computer by downloading and installing the free Quick Startup. When installing the program, be aware of the Toolbar add on and when you've finished using it, uninstall it as it's no longer needed. Not only does it check for the necessity of startup programs but it can identify ‘nasties‘.

Get it here http://www.glarysoft.com/qs.html?tag=download

To disable (recommended action) an entry, remove the tick alongside its name. If you are unsure about an entry and want to know more about it, highlight it and then click ‘More information’ at the bottom of the screen. To delete an entry from the list (it doesn't uninstall the program), highlight it and click Delete in the left pane.

Although BurrWalnut's answer is very good, you may walso want to run following commands that speed up the disk access, remove file cross-linkage, correct the $MFT, and more. This is a THREE STEPS process: (1) disk error correction (2) drive defragmentation (3) speed-up boot loading.

STEP-1:   Just do following once a week (usually before going to bed) [save as btch file e.g. ckdkwk.bat]

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Start /wait CHKNTFS /d C:
CHKNTFS /d D:
CHKDSK /f /v /r /x D:
CHKDSK /f /v /r /x C:
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You can add E or F if you have more partitions. Waht this does is it thouroughly checks your hard drive bit-by-bit to make sure you do not have orphaned file (or corrupted files). This command may take 2 to 8 hours depending on you hard drive size.

STEP-2:   Also use DEFRAGGLER to defragment drive once a week. If oyu have downloaded say files > 500MB, it can fragment your $MFT into 3 or more. To defragment $MFT, use PAGEDEFRAG which is part of SysInternal Suite

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PageDefrag.zip

DEFRAGGLER: http://www.piriform.com/

STEP-3:  Download, Install and Run Bootvis.msi
Download from MajorGeek: http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

Please post your experience.

This way you would not have problem checking disk but weekly or twice a month.