Windows 10: I keep getting BSOD on my windows 10 laptop that then give a slow startup and boot.

I'm going to start of with saying this wasn't happening a few days ago I haven't made any major changes I've looked at the logs they either give me nothing or multiple different errors which I've tried the remedial steps and it's not working. I defragmented my disk. Ran sfc /scannow in the terminal. Made sure to check my firewall and antivirus settings. I deleted unnecessary apps. I made sure my driver's we're up to date even updating my graphics driver. I didn't run anything to see if it was over heating but it doesn't really get that hot. The BSOD vary it's not just one specific action that

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windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

10 Tips for SSD Optimization in Windows 7 - Part 1

Looks to be similar to this: https://www.back2gaming.com/focus-story/ssd-optimization-for-windows-10-windows-8-and-8-1/


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.

 

Windows Startup password

Is it possible to remove a startup password without being able to log into the system? A friend's laptop just prompt her today for a password that she never enabled. Now, she does have a standard user account password, but that doesn't work for the startup password. She had the computer for about a year now and it has never asked for a startup password until today.

I tried to use Hiren Boot CD to run a diagnostic on the laptop, but it has a bsod. Windows 10 normal boot crashes as well

 

Can't get GPU-Z to start with Windows 8.1 startup

I'm not sure how to do that. Could you list the steps for a noob?