5 Ways to Fix Slow Boot Times in Windows 10
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Date: 2020-05-09
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Mike
Thanks for the suggestions. It seems there was enough of a change to show some decrease in boot times. I'd like to add a few things: - If you have any external harddrives that aren't SSD, it might be a good idea to have them unplugged at startup as they increase boot times. I have an 8TB WD Book that takes up a good chunk of the boot times. I have others in various sizes, but I usually keep one hooked up all the time and use the others when necessary. - SSD is definitely a great recommendation. It would be important to note that your Motherboard needs SATA III to have the maximum performance available for the SSD. I have one hooked up but only to a SATA II. Currently in the process of getting a SATA card to install on the PCI slot. - Having a dedicated graphics card may help, especially if you're doing graphics related work and/or playing games on your PC. Having a dual monitor would also warrant a decent graphics card so you can take a load off from the Motherboard (if your card is integrated into it).
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Thanks for the suggestions. It seems there was enough of a change to show some decrease in boot times. I'd like to add a few things: - If you have any external harddrives that aren't SSD, it might be a good idea to have them unplugged at startup as they increase boot times. I have an 8TB WD Book that takes up a good chunk of the boot times. I have others in various sizes, but I usually keep one hooked up all the time and use the others when necessary. - SSD is definitely a great recommendation. It would be important to note that your Motherboard needs SATA III to have the maximum performance available for the SSD. I have one hooked up but only to a SATA II. Currently in the process of getting a SATA card to install on the PCI slot. - Having a dedicated graphics card may help, especially if you're doing graphics related work and/or playing games on your PC. Having a dual monitor would also warrant a decent graphics card so you can take a load off from the Motherboard (if your card is integrated into it).
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TalesOfWar
Non of these have fixed my issues sadly and I know for a fact it's NOT the hardware. 1903 is a massive pile of crap for performance. It takes my system literally 5 mins after hitting desktop before anything is responsive. This should NOT happen, I'm running an 8700K, 32GB of RAM, GTX 1080 and have a Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD as the OS drive with an 860 PRO SATA SSD as the secondary. I rolled back to the previous version, booted from hitting power to fully usable in 15 seconds or there abouts. Now it's a 5 min wait before I can actually use the system. It's fine after this. I tried a full nuke and pave with a totally fresh install and nope. Still the same. I have no idea what's causing it other than 1903. I see others with the same or similar issues with no resolution, it's something Microsoft need to fix. Who knew firing your ENTIRE QA team and insisting on putting out a major version update every 6 months was a good idea? Morons.
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Non of these have fixed my issues sadly and I know for a fact it's NOT the hardware. 1903 is a massive pile of crap for performance. It takes my system literally 5 mins after hitting desktop before anything is responsive. This should NOT happen, I'm running an 8700K, 32GB of RAM, GTX 1080 and have a Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD as the OS drive with an 860 PRO SATA SSD as the secondary. I rolled back to the previous version, booted from hitting power to fully usable in 15 seconds or there abouts. Now it's a 5 min wait before I can actually use the system. It's fine after this. I tried a full nuke and pave with a totally fresh install and nope. Still the same. I have no idea what's causing it other than 1903. I see others with the same or similar issues with no resolution, it's something Microsoft need to fix. Who knew firing your ENTIRE QA team and insisting on putting out a major version update every 6 months was a good idea? Morons.
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Charlie
From a shaded start screen to 3 gig being used out of 6 gig memory, to daily Updates i have kept away from 10 & used 7 in Windows. Now got a good Lenovo i-core 5 ,6gig,300hd as i mentioned on Win - 10 Pro it's a nightmare,as my Back-up's go to my External Drive but this 430s Lenovo can take many extra's like 2 bays for more Ram on top of the one's below. It came with 6 gig but only reconises 3gig and going to buy more Ram & SSD simply due to the fact its a good Laptop being spoit by Microsoft and there forced blunders in Updates we never need why im going to change things to see if it can be better. I blocked 10 with a small program namely GWX on my Toshiba and had not a single issue under Windows-7 , as now they are stopping Updates very soon or i would not be wtiting this massive comment but will try these Tweaks as Tech Gumbo are thee best on all things GOOD TECH...Many Thanks
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From a shaded start screen to 3 gig being used out of 6 gig memory, to daily Updates i have kept away from 10 & used 7 in Windows. Now got a good Lenovo i-core 5 ,6gig,300hd as i mentioned on Win - 10 Pro it's a nightmare,as my Back-up's go to my External Drive but this 430s Lenovo can take many extra's like 2 bays for more Ram on top of the one's below. It came with 6 gig but only reconises 3gig and going to buy more Ram & SSD simply due to the fact its a good Laptop being spoit by Microsoft and there forced blunders in Updates we never need why im going to change things to see if it can be better. I blocked 10 with a small program namely GWX on my Toshiba and had not a single issue under Windows-7 , as now they are stopping Updates very soon or i would not be wtiting this massive comment but will try these Tweaks as Tech Gumbo are thee best on all things GOOD TECH...Many Thanks
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Paul
I've always practiced creating a fixed-size, LARGE page file that's either at, or slightly larger than the recommended size given by Windows. Furthermore, this at least gets placed on it's own, separate partition, that I may even locate on a completely separate physical HDD. As HDD space has become less & less expensive - why not? Avoiding the dynamic size allocation usually defaulted by Windows, means file fragmentation should be eliminated. Otherwise, de-fragging this is NEVER possible, since the OS always (theoretically) has this file open and in use. So by creating it once, at a fixed size, means NEVER having any fragmentation. Locating the dedicated partition on a separate, non-system HDD assures no simultaneous (single) r/w head bottle necks. With the advent of SSD's, however, this has become less and less of an issue.
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I've always practiced creating a fixed-size, LARGE page file that's either at, or slightly larger than the recommended size given by Windows. Furthermore, this at least gets placed on it's own, separate partition, that I may even locate on a completely separate physical HDD. As HDD space has become less & less expensive - why not? Avoiding the dynamic size allocation usually defaulted by Windows, means file fragmentation should be eliminated. Otherwise, de-fragging this is NEVER possible, since the OS always (theoretically) has this file open and in use. So by creating it once, at a fixed size, means NEVER having any fragmentation. Locating the dedicated partition on a separate, non-system HDD assures no simultaneous (single) r/w head bottle necks. With the advent of SSD's, however, this has become less and less of an issue.
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Bilal
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TECH GUMBO is the MAN i have learnt a lot from TECH GUMBOD...Nothing good in your life can happen if you start with No For the longest time, I would watch your videos and wanted to make content because I saw the power in it, but I would always make excuses. It wasn't till I watched one of your other videos and said to myself: Time waits for no man, is either i start now or never . So now I started getting out there and making content, now I share motivations and teach people basic computer knowledge and again knowledge about the online world, the online world is growing massively and it's very important we study about it. If it wasn't for the incredible content that you drop, i would have never did this... So Thank TECH GUMBO!!! Your content has inpired me to go on my way up, and now i'm on target to make great things.
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Leo
Oh thank god, I think changing the virtual memory settings worked. My PC started booting up slow since a program crashed while I was closing down a game and everything starting opening slow after that. Even a new tab on chrome would take a minute to open. Looking at the Currently allocated memory had over 21K MB set to it while recommended was less than 2K. Every other source just kept telling to run the same scans over and over.
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Oh thank god, I think changing the virtual memory settings worked. My PC started booting up slow since a program crashed while I was closing down a game and everything starting opening slow after that. Even a new tab on chrome would take a minute to open. Looking at the Currently allocated memory had over 21K MB set to it while recommended was less than 2K. Every other source just kept telling to run the same scans over and over.
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LaLiLuLeLoX
So I did a lil test turning off/on fast boot!! With unimportant programs disabled on start-up in the task manager; My results were 21.77 seconds with fast boot off and 16.55 seconds with fast boot on!! That was on a 6700k with 16gb ram. My brand new AMD build with a 3700x and 32gb ram yeilded the exact same results with a couple of milliseconds differ!! So yea I dunno about fast startup technique
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So I did a lil test turning off/on fast boot!! With unimportant programs disabled on start-up in the task manager; My results were 21.77 seconds with fast boot off and 16.55 seconds with fast boot on!! That was on a 6700k with 16gb ram. My brand new AMD build with a 3700x and 32gb ram yeilded the exact same results with a couple of milliseconds differ!! So yea I dunno about fast startup technique
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Luka
Thank you for someone who is almost illiterate when it comes to computers this video helped me tremendously! Also does anyone know if a game can slow down the boot of your computer? I recently downloaded a game that I could run on minimal performance and since then my computer started taking more time to boot but it might have been because I downloaded some viruses and such in the progress as well.
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Thank you for someone who is almost illiterate when it comes to computers this video helped me tremendously! Also does anyone know if a game can slow down the boot of your computer? I recently downloaded a game that I could run on minimal performance and since then my computer started taking more time to boot but it might have been because I downloaded some viruses and such in the progress as well.
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Bischarch
From 34 to 30sec after following the steps except the part that i need to disable fast start up. After disabling the fast startup, the boot time became 40 seconds. So i keep it checked and do the other steps. Ps. Bios boot time is 17 seconds and windows 10 boot time is 12 seconds. Fastboot is disabled in bios coz system won't bootif i turn it on, and will just go to bios screen again.
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From 34 to 30sec after following the steps except the part that i need to disable fast start up. After disabling the fast startup, the boot time became 40 seconds. So i keep it checked and do the other steps. Ps. Bios boot time is 17 seconds and windows 10 boot time is 12 seconds. Fastboot is disabled in bios coz system won't bootif i turn it on, and will just go to bios screen again.
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lenny108
the very first thing people expect from an up-to-date OS is.........fast boot. When your machine is brand new and still Win10 is booting sluggish at a crawl and you have to take lessons how to fix that, is this acceptable? Nope! This OS is jeopardized by clowns who want to fool you by loading all kind of crap and junk while booting.
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the very first thing people expect from an up-to-date OS is.........fast boot. When your machine is brand new and still Win10 is booting sluggish at a crawl and you have to take lessons how to fix that, is this acceptable? Nope! This OS is jeopardized by clowns who want to fool you by loading all kind of crap and junk while booting.
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