Windows 10: Boot speed

I have read lots of threads about people complaining they used to get boot times of 8 seconds before upgrading to win 10 and now it takes ages! like20 seconds!
Well I am having difficulty with this. Are they running supercomputers or what?
My old Win 7 system took about 70 secs or more to boot and now my win 10 takes about 50 seconds.
I have almost nothing loading at boot and I have got a pretty decent PC

ASUSTeK SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 Rev 1.xx mobo
4.00 gigahertz AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core CPU
8GB memory
KINGSTON SSD 250Gb C drive

How many other people get sub 15 second boots?
How do you time the boot anyway?
I would time it from pressing the ON switch to getting a usable desktop with all icons loaded. is that how every one times it?
Is there something wrong with my PC ?
Mike

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Hi, Kiran!

Thanks for your answer. I activated Hybernate mode, as a modality to fix the problem. Anyway, why Win 10 boot speed is lower then Win 8.1?

Have a nice day!

 

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Hi Adrian,

We appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

Have you installed any third party applications/ third party security software?

Kindly follow the below methods and check if it helps.

Method 1:

Fast startup is a new feature in
Windows to help your PC start up faster after shutting down. When turned on, Windows does this by using a
hybrid shutdown (a partial hibernate) method that saves only the kernel session and device
drivers (system information) to hibernate (hiberfil.sys) file on disk instead
of closing it when you shut down your PC.

I suggest you to enable the fast startup and check if it helps. Follow the below steps.

Please try the steps and check if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows + R keys on the keyboard to open Run command.
  
• 
  Type powercfg.cpl to open the power settings.
  
• 
  Click on the Choose what power buttons do on the left navigation pane.
  
• 
  Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable (Enter the admin credentials if prompted)
  
• 
  Check the Turn on Fast startup (Recommended) box.
  
• 
  Click on Save changes.
  
• 
  Restart the computer.
  

If the issue persist, follow the below method.



Method 2:

Install the latest updates through Windows updates.

• Open the Start menu and type
  Windows update in the search bar.
• Click on Windows update and
  Check for the updates.
• Download and install if there are any pending updates to be installed.

If the issue persist, follow the below method.



Method 3:

A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts that occur when you install a program or an update or when you run a program in Windows.

I would suggest you to refer the below Microsoft help article on How to Perform Clean boot.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

The steps for Windows 8.1 applies well to Windows 10 also.

Disclaimer: Please reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot by referring above article.

Note: I suggest you to disable third party security software (if any installed) and check if it is cause to the issue.

Disable Antivirus Disclaimer:

Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you shouldn't disable your antivirus software. If you have to temporarily disable it to install other software, you should re-enable
it as soon as you're done. If you're connected to the Internet or a network while your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks.

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

The people getting very fast boots are using EFI systems, since you had a win 7 system you mostly likely are using a legacy BIOS. Still your times seem a bit slow. Check out this thread in the overclocking forum for restart times. What is your Windows 10 Restart Time? - Windows 10 Forums . It is another way to compare. BTW you can see your POST time using taskmanager, the startup tap has it on the top RH side.

 

Wow, that's a good tip about the boot time in task manager. I didn't know that. It gives us all something to compare all using the same measurement.

Thank you

 

That boot time in task manager isn't accurate. Mine says 0.0 seconds lol.

 

Mine says 7.6 seconds.

 

Mine says Last Bios time: 0.0 seconds