windows 10 Horrendously slow boot times.

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Good afternoon all! Just wondering if anyone here is/has experienced the (apparently quite common) dreaded slow boot times issue in windows 10, and if so, what was done to rectify?

I have tried disabling fast boot in windows, I have disabled any unused resources/features in the BIOS, and I am still having issues. I get the same issues when running my cpu, gpu and memory at stock clocks too.

My SSD is in good health, and the OS in general performs fine, once I get to the login screen. Between the Asus splash screen and and the Win 10 login, I get the spinning dots timer thingymabob, but it takes around 2 minutes, sometimes longer. During which, my keyboard and mouse power up and down a few times, and I can also hear my sound card switching (or something).

Zero issues in win 7. Win 10 was a clean install, around 4 days ago.

I have googled around a bit, but all i get is the things I have tried, plus all the generic troubleshooting that always gets thrown in for good measure.

Need any more info, just ask.

thanks in advance :)
 
I would also like to know WTF is going on?

my Main PC is running a RAIDED Quad mSata 120GB C: that gives me an average of 1.7Gb a second speed times and when I first installed, the system would take about 1 second to boot from the BIOS info scren vanishing, to the desktop being fully up and running.... Very very quick.

But these days, Im looking at 30-35 seconds.

What the hell?
 
Slow boot issues goes back decades on every OS, try using Google for slow boot with Win7 and you'll be surprised with how many posts pop up, regardless it's normally a driver or software issue in my experience and NOT the OS, so you have to rule out those, try checking for driver updates and "Reliability History" in Control panel to see if there are any issues there.
 
I've been on the latest BIOS for a while now, asus haven't updated it in a while.

As an update, my issues have all disappeared now, after win 10 had run through some updates. the only issue I have now, is that at boot the keyboard isn't always picked up, and I have to unplug and re-seat the cable and it's fine then. Curiously, it doesn't happen every time.



I would also like to know WTF is going on?

my Main PC is running a RAIDED Quad mSata 120GB C: that gives me an average of 1.7Gb a second speed times and when I first installed, the system would take about 1 second to boot from the BIOS info scren vanishing, to the desktop being fully up and running.... Very very quick.

But these days, Im looking at 30-35 seconds.

What the hell?

I'd try turning off fast boot in the windows power settings, and try running a disk cleanup or ccleaner as well. Also, run msconfig from the command line and check to see what background services are running, and what startup items you have.
 
I had a similar "disappearing keyboard" at boot a couple of times, I'm betting it's a USB keyboard, and that your bios options are set to limit USB activation for a faster boot.

If that is indeed the case, and you don't need the ports for external devices, try rocking with the keyboard in a USB3 port, might not be the same on your end but for me they're the first activated at power-on so as soon as the bios starts loading it's on and working, hasn't disappeared on me since.
 
yes - disabling then re-enabling fast boot seems to be a common explanation, along with graphic drivers being out of date.

Windows 10 autocratically deciding to install a driver can obviously have bad consequences on boot, I am not yet sure that both setting 'do not update devices' , plus setting metered connection/'let me schedule restart' are sufficient to prevent it doing this ?
(so all it seems I can do is regularly check driver version is the same )

If you want to debug slow startup you can load up the windows performance analyser and this will show charts showing where the time go's (used this on win7)
 
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