Windows 10 takes long time to start from login screen

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I upgraded my system to Windows 10 today. When I log in, it takes a long time to start . The small image goes round and round for a long time and after entering the password also it takes a long time to show the screen. Please advice how to correct this situation.

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This can be normal for the first few boots after the upgrade depending on what you mean by long time. Did you actually get to the Welcome Page to setup up windows 10 with your info? Is everything working OK after the boot? You should post more info— Model computer, previous windows version, any error messages. FYI you have 30 days to return to windows 7 or 8,1. Go to Settings, Update and Recovery, select the option to go back to windows 7 or 8.1. This doesn’t always work so make sure you have good backups.

Check with your computer maker to see if your model is approved for upgrading. If it is not approved, it is best to return to your previous windows. Get windows 10 when you replace the computer. Not approved means there are no customized win 10 drivers for your model and you will not be happy with the performance of the generic drivers. This is especially true of older windows 7 laptops.

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7 Ways to Fix Slow Boot Times in Windows 10

Experiencing slow boot times in Windows 10? Here are several useful tips and tricks to fix slow startup on Windows 10.

One of the most frustrating Windows issues is slow startup. When Windows takes forever to boot, you’ll dread turning on or rebooting your computer.

Thankfully, slow booting is a solvable issue. We’ll show you the most common fixes for slow startup problems in Windows 10.

1. Disable Fast Startup

One of the most problematic settings that causes slow boot times in Windows 10 is the fast startup option. This is enabled by default, and is supposed to reduce startup time by pre-loading some boot information before your PC shuts off. (Note that while it applies to shutting down, restarting your computer isn’t affected by this feature.)

While the name sounds promising, it causes issues for a lot of people. Thus, it’s the first step you should try when you have slow boot problems.

To disable it, open Settings and browse to System > Power & sleep. On the right side of this screen, click Additional power settings to open the Power Options menu in the Control Panel.

Here, click Choose what the power buttons do on the left sidebar. You’ll need to provide administrator permission to change the settings on this page, so click the text at the top of the screen that reads Change settings that are currently unavailable.

Now, untick Turn on fast startup (recommended), followed by Save Changes to disable this setting.

If you don’t see fast startup here, you don’t have hibernation enabled and thus it won’t show up. To enable hibernation, open an administrator Command Prompt or PowerShell window. You can do this by right-clicking on the Start button or hitting Win + X and choosing Command Prompt (Admin) or Windows PowerShell (Admin).

Type the following command to enable hibernation, then try to disable fast startup again:

2. Adjust Paging File Settings

Virtual memory is the name for a feature where Windows dedicates part of your storage drive as pretend RAM—this section is called the paging file. With more RAM, you can have more tasks running on your system at once. So if Windows is close to maxing out actual RAM, it dips into virtual memory.

Some people have found that Windows 10 can change virtual memory settings on its own, causing boot issues. You should thus have a look at your virtual memory settings and see if you can change them to fix the slow boot problem.

To do this, type Performance into the Start Menu and choose the Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows.

Under the Advanced tab, you’ll see the size of the paging file; click Change to edit it.

On the resulting window, what’s important is at the bottom. You’ll see a Recommended amount of memory and a Currently Allocated number. Some users having this issue find that their current allocation is way over the recommended number.

If yours looks off in the same way, uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives to make changes. Then choose Custom Size and set the Initial Size and Maximum Size to the recommended values below.

Reboot, and your boot times should improve.

3. Turn Off the Linux Subsystem

Windows 10 offers a full Linux terminal in addition to the classic Command Prompt. This is exciting for developers, but it might also the culprit of your boot issues.

This feature isn’t turned on by default. So if you don’t know what Bash is, you probably don’t need to try this step, as you would know if you had turned it on.

To turn off the Linux shell, type Windows features into the Start Menu to open the Turn Windows features on or off menu. Scroll down to Windows Subsystem for Linux, uncheck it, and restart.

If this fixes your slow boot issues but you still need the Bash interface, try the new Windows terminal for another option.

4. Update Graphics Drivers

Windows 10 is known to mess with drivers, unfortunately. Updating your graphics card drivers can sometimes fixe boot issues, so you should give that a look next.

Open the Device Manager by right-clicking on the Start button (or hitting Win + X) and choosing Device Manager. Navigate to Display adapters to see which graphics card you’re using (typically Nvidia or AMD if you have a dedicated graphics card).

You can usually open the corresponding vendor software on your PC to check for graphics updates. If you don’t have the software, you’ll need to navigate to the vendor’s website (or your laptop manufacturer’s website, if you’re using integrated graphics on a laptop) to check for driver updates.

Install any new versions available, restart, then see if your boot times speed up.

We’ve covered updating your computer drivers in more detail if you need help. Hopefully, an update will fix your issue. It could be worth checking for other driver updates while you’re doing this, but other drivers are not commonly a cause of slow booting.

5. Remove Some Startup Programs

Perhaps your slow boot time isn’t caused by one of the problems above. If you experience slowness between logging in and actually getting to use your computer, too many programs running at startup could be the culprit.

A lot of software sets itself to automatically run at startup when you install or update it. If you have dozens of apps loading as soon as you log in, this can really bog your system down. Follow our guide to removing heavy startup programs and see if unloading a few makes a difference.

6. Run an SFC Scan

The SFC, or System File Checker, command will check your Windows installation for corrupted system files and try to replace them with working copies. It’s worth running this to trouble the startup issue, as some Windows files responsible for the booting process could be the cause of your slow startup.

7. If All Else Fails, Perform a Reset

If you’ve tried all the above solutions and still can’t speed up your boot time, it might be best to cut your losses and reinstall a fresh copy of Windows 10.

You have several options for resetting your PC. The built-in Refresh option can reinstall Windows without removing any of your files. You’ll should still back up your computer data before this, though.

Head to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery and select Get started under Reset this PC to start.

Slow Booting in Windows 10, Begone

Hopefully, applying one or all of these fixes works for you. Slow startup is a huge pain, but you thankfully have options to combat it. If nothing else works, hold out for the next major Windows 10 release, which should clear up the issue.

In case your slowness persists well after booting, you should be aware of other ways to make your Windows PC faster, too.

It’s not hard to make Windows 10 faster. Here are several methods to improve the speed and performance of Windows 10.

Ben is a Deputy Editor and the Onboarding Manager at MakeUseOf. He left his IT job to write full-time in 2016 and has never looked back. He’s been covering tech tutorials, video game recommendations, and more as a professional writer for over six years.

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It is possible that a driver is causing the system to restart slowly. However its not
possible to exactly determine which driver is causing the issue. It could also be software that slows down restart time.

Have any changes been made to the computer prior to this issue occuring?

You can try these methods to check if the issue gets resolved

Method 1:Run the System Maintenance troubleshooter
a)Press the ‘Windows + C’ to activate the charms menu or move the mouse pointer to bottom
right corner of the screen and you will get the charms menu.
b)Click on ‘search’ and select ‘settings’ and type ‘Troubleshooting’ and select ‘Troubleshooting’.
c)On the left pane click «View All» and then click «System Maintenance» and run the troubleshooter.

Method 2:
Step 1:Check if the system takes time to start in Safe Mode

Follow the steps on this link to start your system in safe mode and check if the start up time is less.

Step 2:Check if the issue exists in clean boot start up.
Follow the steps here to troubleshoot the issue. There could be a program that takes time to load and this slows down the system.

Note: Once troubleshooting is done please follow «Step 3 :Reset the computer to
start as usual» on the article to boot the computer in normal mode.

Please get back to us if you have any other queries.

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Following the Step 2 in Method 2 above, I’ve found 3 candidates that may cause the restart problem. They are: NVIDIA Display Driver Service, NVIDIA Update Service Daemon, and NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service. When they are excluded(unchecked) restarting Windows takes about 3-4 mins. (Of course, this is pretty long, too. But when they are included restarting takes about 30 mins or more) Because restart testing takes too long time I didn’t go further than that, so don’t know what service among the three is the exact cause of the problem. But, it seems pretty obvious that the problem is releated to graphics chipset driver. My laptop’s graphics chipset is GeForce GT 555m. I wish you have any helpful idea about this. Thank you.

P.S. In my case, restarting Windows takes longer(much longer :-p) time than newly starting Windows after turning off(Of course, Fast Start Up option is activated). Is it normal, i.e., is it intended so?(restart time > newly start time with FSU option) Or just problem of my laptop?

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There are Windows 8 drivers available for the Nvidia GT 555M.
Please uninstall all the old drivers from Control Panel and Device Manager.

To uninstall drivers from Device Manager
a)Press the «Windows key + R» and type «devmgmt.msc» and hit enter.
b)Expand «Display adapters» and right click the drivers and uninstall them.

Please note the system type (32 or 64 bit) and download and install the drivers.

A number of factors determine boot time. Amount of RAM, frequency of the RAM, type of hard disk (SSDs boot faster),number of start up items, etc.

Restarting Windows 8 does take longer that a complete shutdown and restart with Fast Startup enabled.

Fast startup is a setting that helps your PC start up faster after shutdown.
Windows does this by saving system info to a file upon shutdown.
When you start your PC again, Windows uses that system info to resume your PC instead of restarting it.

Note:The fast startup setting doesn’t apply to Restart.
You need to shut down and then start your PC again for fast startup to take effect.
Fast startup is turned on by default in Windows.

Let us know what happens.

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My boot time is a few seconds, and I have an NVidia 630 graphics card with two video storage. Perhaps you need a driver update for your graphics card.

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Fast Startup is the problem. Startup is quick, though not spectacular with fast startup disabled. It can take from ten to thirty minutes with fast startup enabled. I am presently using the obvious solution of just not using fast startup. Hopefully, Microsoft will eventually get a fix out for this problem. (I have updated to 8.1, and that had no impact other then re-enabling fast startup with the same problem, so I have again disabled it.

Whoops! Problem returned. Nothing seemed to help, so I disabled all ‘load on boot’ items except for security and a few obviously necessary programs such as microsoft. (Most just pre-install so they will execute faster on first use and will not even take significantly longer to just execute on first use. (HP)). Everything is now fine, perhaps spectacular. Boot is under 25 seconds as opposed to five minutes before I started this odyssey. In the future I will check boot time after installing anything and uninstall ANY program that malwares by negatively messing needlessly with the boot sequence without my permission. ALL programs should ask and explain before modifying the boot sequence.

Just a note; some security programs don’t do a full uninstall, leaving ‘residue’ in the boot which can slow down not only boot time, but scan times. Using a smart uninstaller to clean this up really helped my machine and not just boot time. It has also affected my opinion of some big name security providers (K). If I uninstall them, what are they still reporting?