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Windows 10 exteremely long boot time.

Anonymous
2020-10-27T12:29:47+00:00

I have Windows 10 Home 10.0.19041 Buid 19041

When I boot (restart or normal boot) the Welcome screen comes up quite quickly with the line drawing of a head & shoulders & my name, but then it stays like that for some 10 minutes before it starts building the desktop. During that time the disk is thrashing away but I can't get Task Manager up with ctl-alt-del to get a clue as to what is going on. I just can't imagine what it could be doing for all that time. Can anyone suggest a way of progressing this issue please?

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  1. Lester Bernard Reyes 78,435 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-10-27T12:40:11+00:00

    Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is Bernard. I'm a Microsoft Windows expert and a Microsoft Windows fan like you. I'll be happy to help you out today.

    I actually have the same problem as before and by following the steps provided below fixed my issue, I hope this works for you as well.

    Method 1. Do clean boot:

    A “clean boot” starts Windows with a minimal set of drivers and startup programs, so that you can determine whether a background program is interfering with your game or program.

    • In the search box on the taskbar, type msconfig and select System Configuration from the results.
    • On the Services tab of System Configuration, select Hide all Microsoft services, and then select Disable all.
    • On the Startup tab of System Configuration, select Open Task Manager.
    • Under Startup in Task Manager, for each startup item, select the item and then select Disable.
    • Close Task Manager.
    • On the Startup tab of System Configuration, select OK. When you restart the computer, it's in a clean boot environment.

    troubleshooting reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135...

    Method 2. Run memory diagnostic tool: Memory diagnostic tool is a RAM test to check if there is any issues with RAM.

    • Press Windows key + R then type in mdsched.exe hit OK then restart the device.

    Method 3. Set the PC to best performance:

    Press windows key + Pause/Break (or go to file explorer and right click This PC and click properties)

    click on Advanced system settings> Under Performance click settings> Click Adjust for best performance and click OK

    Note: this will reduce all appearance settings you have but will optimize the performance of the PC.

    Let me know how does it goes and I hope that helps.

    Bernard

    Independent Advisor

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-28T00:03:03+00:00

    Hi, thanks for your response. Before I tried your suggestions update 2H20 popped up, so I installed that in the hope it would help. It has helped quite a bit, I'm now at just about 4 minutes from the first windows screen to starting to build the desktop. Then I can start task manager & its another 2.5 minutes until the disk drops below 90%. Still seems a hell of a long time. I'll try your suggestions over the next couple of days (testing reboots is a pita, can't even do it over lunch or something because I need to watch it to time it). Cheers.

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  3. Lester Bernard Reyes 78,435 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-10-28T04:01:36+00:00

    Thanks for replying, hopefully that works

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