So I deleted Avast on all three computers and am now using Defender. Here is what happened. The two laptops powered up within three minutes vs 8-10 previously. The desktop had no change in how long it takes, but I am hard wired on that one. But from temporarily disabling the wifi on the first laptop it threw something off where every time I turned the power on there would be no internet and I would manually have to turn it on. Then it got so bad that the internet kept turning off seconds after I reconnected it.
I spent hours troubleshooting. Unchecking power management on the adapter settings, updating drivers, resetting connections, running trouble shooters, deleting drivers and reinstalling, re inputting router password. You name it, I did it. Read about every article on the internet about what to do. Then I realized that I only use this one computer to view things - I don't use it anywhere else so I decided to hard-wire it to the router and it instantaneously fixed the wifi problem. BUT, now that it is hardwired it is taking long to boot.
So my guess is that there were two issues here that were causing the long boot ups. One was Avast and the other is the router.
I'm done trying to troubleshoot the wireless connection - I don't mind using hard wire for this computer. What I will do is unplug it at boot up and then plug it in to get wifi after everything loads.
