Hi Rob Not much help but a similar thing happened with my son's PC. I tried loads of things to try and speed it up; defragging, disabling services, using an old small (32GB) SSD as a ready boost device, registry clean, fixing cache size, malwarebyes scan, spybot scan and immunise, but eventually gave up and installed a larger SSD with a new install and migrated his account over.
I didnt try a "repair build", which might help. Marc On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 10:47, Rob via Hampshire < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > > > Forgive me for asking a Windows (10 home) question on this list but I’m at > the end of my tether… > > > > My current machine (a well specced AMD bought Summer 2020) has begun to > boot very slowly (over 2 minutes) in the last month or so. I have a bit > of time at the moment so removed everything I’d added in the last month. > Result: Restarts are blindingly fast but cold boots (first boot of the day > in particular) are 2+ minutes. > > > > To make matters worse, I can’t find out which startup service / driver / > program / whatever is causing the delay. There used to be a way to do > this (F8 I seem to recall) but doesn’t seem to be there now. > > > > I can find a boot log (ntbtlog.txt) but that doesn’t give any times or > success / failures. The only items in my startup need to be there > (software firewall etc.) – I’ve checked there are no others. Similarly > I’ve uninstalled anything I don’t know about and done a full scan. > > > > Short of a reinstall – which is very fiddly for me as my magnification > software has never played well with my software firewall – is there > anything I can / should do? > > > > Cheers > > Rob > > > > Does anyone know whether Windows does anything when it hasn’t booted for a > matter of hours that it doesn’t do when it’s been restarted a minute > earlier? Or does anyone know how to show each boot driver it’s loading as > it does so – so I can see which one is causing the delay? > > > > Cheers > > Rob > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Marc Loftus | Director | WebMarcIT Ltd | 3 Annes Way, Fleet, Hampshire, GU52 6AG | Tel 07917 568 685 | [email protected] www.webmarcit.com Company Registered Number 08977559 | Registered in England P Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? This message is intended for the addressee only. It may contain information of a confidential or legally privileged nature. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message immediately. WebMarcIT Ltd. cannot accept liability for any loss or damage you may incur as a result of virus infection.
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