Delayed Startup

Question

Recently I'm experiencing delayed startups with my system, which is a Dell Xps 8700 wity 16 GB RAM .

As far as I'm aware of, no new programs have been added and what I did up to now for trouble shooting is disable all the start up services except the Microsoft related. This did not change the delay and as the startup programs have not changed I did not tweak them.

What has me confused is that if I power off the computer and re-start the delay does not happen and it boots in less than 40 ", but if I just do a re-start without a power off, than it delays for about 2 minutes, which did not happen before (it used to boot in less than a minute).

Ive tried to find some program which can show me a log of the startups with time, but I can't find one.

I'd appreciate your advice.

Answer 1

If it's reading not measure then my step would be to disable all of them, restart, and try enabling one by one, followed by a restart until you find the one that is causing the issue.  Usually the list is not long on here, so it shouldn't take to much time to figure out which program is the culprit.

Answer 2

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your reply and explanation on the rebooting. I went to start up and what I've been finding all the time that in the column "startup impact" , all I have is "not measured".

Any more ideas?

Answer 3

First let me address the confusion you have on the restarting procedure delays.  By default Windows 8 and 8.1 have on what is called Fast Startup.  This only occurs when you shutdown the computer, and does not occur upon doing a restart.  A restart is exactly that, a full restart.  However, when Windows 8.1 has it's defualt set, shutting down the computer actually does what is called a hybrid shutdown.  It does this by performing a partial hibernation which results in the kernal and device driver files being saved to the hard drive, similar to what a hibernation would do, so the computer can start back up faster when you turn it back on.  Due to this, your startup is actually faster when you do it after the computer has been shutdown, over doing a restart which saves nothing and starts everything fresh.

Now to determine what programs are starting up, right click on your status bar, and left click on Task Manager.

Click the startup tab

Here you have listed all the programs that start up during boot, along with a column that shows you what impact they have on the startup portion.  You can also disable easily any of these by clicking on one and then clicking Disable.  In Windows 8 and 8.1 this is the preferred method to turning on or off startup programs, versus the old msconfig.

I always suggest that you first turn off all high impact programs that are not driver related.