Hello Rob Is Dropbox running at boot. This can really hang things up
Blessings Mike. > On Dec 16, 2020, at 04:47, 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------
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