Windows 10: Bootup has slowed down immensely. Already tried most common tips. What can I do?

Current state of my laptop

I have a kinda old Dell Inspiron 7537 laptop powered by an i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and 1TB HDD. When I upgraded it to Windows 10 in 2015 it took about 10-20 seconds to boot. I used it pretty much every day for a year, then barely used it a few times a year for the next 2 years and now I'm back to daily usage. About a year ago I noticed that the boot time has shot up to about ~10-12 minutes! Since then I tried to do some basic troubleshooting methods, but none of them seemed to work.

Things I've already tried:

• First thing I did was to completely reinstall Windows 10. It had already been 4 years since the last reinstall so I was like sure, why not. This sped things up by maybe 2-3 minutes.
• Updated drivers
• Disabled basically every startup program
• Defragmentation
• Turned off fast startup
• Clean boot
• Safe mode (maybe 2-3 minutes difference)

None of the above made any difference apart from safe mode and reinstalling Windows. But even with these two "solutions", the computer is stuck on the spinning loading bar welcome screen for about 9 minutes.

One important point is that my programs don't start that slowly. If I click on Chrome, it launches in 1-2 seconds. Most programs don't launch as fast as 5 years ago, but still pretty ok.

Now I've run out of ideas and I just don't know what to do with my PC. Are there any other tricks I could try? Because I dread restarting my PC everytime I have to use it. Would it be worth it to buy an SSD? I know it can speed things up, but since most programs run pretty smoothly I'm not sure if it would majorly improve the boot time. Should I try another operating system i.e. Linux?

submitted by /u/MorningBusGuy
[link] [comments]

:)

 

Slow Computer

Hi Sheree,

One of the most common reasons for a slow computer are programs running in the background. Other factors that can contribute to the issue are memory space, malware infection, outdated software, and processor overheating. To improve your computer's performance,
you can check the tips listed on this link. We suggest that you also try to follow the suggested steps.

Feel free to post back if you have further questions.

 

Windows 10 Slow BootUp

Thank your for answering but none of them fixed slow bootup.

I also noticed 100% usage on my windows which i tried everything and nothing fixed that too.

My drive health is 100% .

 

How Fix Windows 10 Slow Startup/Slow Bootup And Restart Issue

Fix Windows 10 Slow Startup/Slow Bootup And
Restart Issue