Understanding Windows Boot Times
Windows, being one of the most widely-used operating systems, has made significant strides in optimizing boot times over the years. However, users often experience slower boot times due to various factors, including misbehaving startup applications. These...
Hi everyone, some help needed here. My computer in recent months take extremely long to boot up into windows, took an estimated time of 15-20mins to get into windows. It just keeps circling on the login logo before finally getting into windows.
This old pc is running on windows 10 pro, 5-6500...
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Good night, friend! I am using a translator to write this, so apologies if there are any errors.
I am having a problem with my computer, a while ago when I turned on the computer the processor COOLER turned on along with the other coolers and then I could get access to windows in 10 seconds, now...
I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it.
I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...
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Hello,
I dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP.
If I want to switch OS, all I have to do is to click Restart and I will be given a choice of the 2 OSs. That's nice.
The time it takes to switch to the other OS seems to be forever. That's disgusting.
Is there any way to speed up the switch over ...
I answered a question on Quora about what are the first programs you install on a new computer.
I gave my basic list of utilities i.e. CCleaner, Agent Ransack, HWMonitor, Defraggler, Malwarebytes Pro, SuperAntiSpyware, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
Another computer geek posted back...
Last week i posted about slow boot time. I was asked to check free space and had about 300gb left. Well this morning, my laptop had a warning message saying 0 bytes free of 909gb. I checked and sure enough, 0 bytes free. Wtf is going on? Thanks Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk
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I finally timed it today. Once i hit the power button to login screen was 10.3 monutes. Then for icons in taskbar to showup and wifi to connect, another 3.2 minutes 12gb ram 1tb hdd (256gb free) Amd quad core a10 5750 Page file is 2328 to 3300 (custom) Currently allocated is 2328, min allowed is...
My laptop is now running low on memory and it is really slowing down especially its boot time.
Im following this process on reinstalling Windows 10 via USB flash drive in my laptop.
But here's the problem. I had this current version of windows 10 as a free upgrade and I had no serial key...
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My PC was extremely sluggish and it was so slow it was a long struggle to open one file or run a program. I ran anti virus tests etc and eventually reinstalled Windows. It is better but still freezes on opening a folder and whereas as before this happened boot time was 30 seconds or less now...
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Hi
My computer updated to Anniversary last night and there are some big changes right off the bat.
For one thing my computer is running really slow, and the taskbar keeps hiding itself and I can't find anyplace to turn it off.
When I right click in this window the drop down window does not...
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BootRacer is a small, free utility which solves a problem that for the last twenty years, Microsoft has not. BootRacer gives you control over which of your programs start automatically when Windows boots. At the click of a button, BootRacer will delay the initiation of those startup programs...
I have windows 10 installed on a ssd drive and my boot time is around 2 minutes. I've tried everything that I could find online, such as: disable startup programs, enable fast boot etc. . I had some corrupt image files, but I repaired them using DISM and now 'sfc /scannow' is not returning any...
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On my 64bit Win 7 system I have two partitions:
C: (with the "core" Win7 system)
D: (with almost all other stuff)
When I start the following command:
chkdsk D: /F /V /R /X >C:\chkdskout.log
everything works fine.
However when I enter the opposite command
chkdsk C: /F /V /R /X...
Hello,
yesterday my computer got updated without me noticing, I didn't shut it down for a night just put it to sleep. After waking it up some issues occurred:
Firstly I couldn't adjust my screen brightness nor in menus, nor with keyboard (fixed after a restart).
Computer was dead slow...
I just noticed that my Network Frame 3.5 was turned off. When I turned it on my boot up time went from 7 seconds to about 30 seconds. Do I need it turned on in Windows 10? I turned it back off and my boot up time went back to 7 seconds. I have been running 10 without it with no problems since...
Hello,
I was wondering if I could get some input on defragmentation software for Windows?
I am currently using a paid product called PerfectDisk from Raxco software. I purchased this product years ago when I was still running XP and it was one of the best defragmentation tools available at...
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