Slow(ish) boot times.

rosshamilton94 · 18 Sep 2015 at 19:02

Hi folks

I recently added a 128GB Samsung SM951 SSD to my system, which had previously been running a 1TB Crucial BX100 SSD as its sole drive (which has now become a games/programs drive).

Using the Crucial drive alone, Windows 8.1 was booting to the login screen faster than my monitor's startup flash screen.

Given that the Samsung should be faster, I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on why it seems to take anything from 50-100% longer to boot on a Windows 10 system?

Thanks.

EDIT: I should point out that Ultra Fast Boot was/is enabled in the BIOS in both of the above instances. Also, for reference, the BIOS time as displayed in the Task Manager is between 15-20 seconds on the rig in my signature, whereas on my ASUS Zenbook UX305 (also running Windows 10) shows a BIOS time of 2.8 seconds. Surely I should expect the more powerful computer to boot faster?

FloppyPoppy · 18 Sep 2015 at 19:05

Windows 10 just boots slower

Ps your signature is to big.

rosshamilton94 · 18 Sep 2015 at 20:21

Added some new info - don't know if it will help answer my question.

FloppyPoppy · 18 Sep 2015 at 20:32

As i said above bud, windows 10 just boots slower than windows 8

rosshamilton94 · 18 Sep 2015 at 20:36

harry5522 said:
As i said above bud, windows 10 just boots slower than windows 8

Yeah I appreciate that, just wondered why the weaker of the computers does so much better than the stronger.

FixupSellon · 19 Sep 2015 at 21:23

Lighter maybe if it's a laptop type device, always boots faster it seems

Cat_J · 19 Sep 2015 at 22:02

A BIOS in a laptop can be written simply to run only the hardware for that laptop. Your PC BIOS is far more comprehensive, OC options, support for much more hardware, more monitoring and potentially more controllers to initiate. You can't compare the BIOS time between the two really.

benparker · 19 Sep 2015 at 23:17

Win 10 loads slower than win 7 on my PC, kind of annoying

Robert_G · 20 Sep 2015 at 11:34

It could be a program that starts with windows trying to check for updates.
Malwarebytes was the cause for me, luckily it has an option to delay the check till after windows starts. I set that to 30 seconds and haven't had a problem since.