Laptop slow start up.

S0litaire

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Simply having a mechanical drive won't cause a boot time delay of the size reported.

It can.

I had a 2Tb mechanical drive in my Win 10 box and it took 5 to 8 mins after log in for programs to launch.

This was on a clean install with no 3rd party AV installed. Win 10 does a LOT of I/O calls to the boot drive in the background after startup/login (it's doing a lot of housekeeping.)

Swapped it out for a SSD imaged the install over (not a clean install) and it's now less than 20 seconds from login to launch a program from the desktop.

robin58

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Get rid of mccrappy

I agree. Used to have that as my antivirus programme as it was free with the broadband provider.

It slowed the start up for me when I used it.

DUMP IT!

There are better, leaner antivirus programs out there.

Fellwalker

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Get rid of mccrappy

I have used it or years and do not have any problems with slowness.


The thing that gave me most trouble was RAPPORT, which banks and financial institutions regularly recommend you install. I found it would regularly use 20-30% of my CPU.

Fellwalker

jeff_chandler wrote: »

Thank you all so much for your useful information regarding this problem. My McAfee anti virus ran out a few weeks ago but the laptop keeps reminding me. The laptop is only 15 months old but it does have lots of photos on the hard drive.

I shall follow the info provided and hope there will be an improvement.

Thanks again Jeff.

Lots of photos should not matter. I have tens of thousands (350GB) without problems. Besides, that shouldn't have any impact before you are able to use it. UNLESS you have some sort of backup or photo manipulation or something similar running in the background. And I have Windows backup, plus BT Cloud backup running without significant impact.


Whilst I use McAfee myself without trouble, if you are not using it you should uninstall it and let the Windows Anti virus take over.

J_B

Maybe you need to leave it switched on - just reboot when you don't need it for 10 minutes .... as well as following all the other advice on here!

that

S0litaire wrote: »

It can.

I had a 2Tb mechanical drive in my Win 10 box and it took 5 to 8 mins after log in for programs to launch.
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Are you a developer, or store thousands/millions of very small files? Took 2 weeks of 24/7 to copy over 2TB of those across a network. MS synchronization was 6 weeks.

S0litaire

that wrote: »

Are you a developer, or store thousands/millions of very small files? Took 2 weeks of 24/7 to copy over 2TB of those across a network. MS synchronization was 6 weeks.

Nope.
Mostly Steam games ;D and empty space.

Will be using it with a 1TB drive and 2 2Tb drives as a Plex & VM image store once I shuffle my currant 2 systems into a single server..

arciere

Fellwalker wrote: »

Lots of photos should not matter. I have tens of thousands (350GB) without problems. Besides, that shouldn't have any impact before you are able to use it.

If the disk is heavily fragmented, and this usually happens overtime following normal usage, it will take much longer for Windows to load, there doesn't need to be a specific activity that runs during boot up.

AndyPix

^^ Shouldnt be an issue with windows 7 onwards as scheduled defrags are default behaviour

EveryWhere

Open the Start menu.
Search for msinfo32 or System Information and press Enter.

You should see the model number and other details of your of your PC there.