Windows 10: Slow restarts when using a restart OTHER than Win10 10122

Strange. I have a restart button on a gadget control panel and it takes forever to restart. If I use the restart supplied with the Start menu, it is its usual quick self. Problem is that I had to do a restart for Calibre and it too was hung for all intents and purposes. I just hit the reset button to get the computer to reboot but NOT my preferred method.

Anyone else seeing this with non Win10 restarts? Did they change the restart command line perhaps?

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Slow restart after win10 upgrade.

I had the same issue. Mine was TERRIBLE!!. This article helped me a little , although not totally. How to fix windows 10 slow boot
issues

 

Slow restart after win10 upgrade.

Hello Tony,

Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

As per the description, I understand that you are experiencing issue with after upgrading to Windows 10, the system is taking a very long time to restart.

I certainly understand your concern and will try my best to help you.

This issue might have occurred if any third party application is causing conflict in the system.

To diagnose the problem whether any third party program or application is causing the conflict, I would suggest you to try “clean boot” and check if it helps.

Placing your system in “Clean Boot” state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue. You need to follow the steps from the article mentioned below to perform a Clean Boot.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows



https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135?wa=wsignin1.0



If the issue does not occur in “Clean Boot”, then you may determine which application/service on the computer is causing this issue. This can be done by following the instructions for
“Windows 8.1 and Windows 8” given in the section “How to determine what is causing the problem by performing a Clean Boot” from the same given link.



Note: Refer "How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting" to reset the computer to start as normal after troubleshooting.

The above steps holds good for Windows 10 as well.

I hope this information is helpful.

Please do let us know if you need any further assistance, we will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Sorry, what gadget control panel?

 

I have a Restart shortcut with a target of: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /r /t 30- (/r = restart, /t = wait time in seconds - 60 might be the default, not sure).

I'm not familiar with the gadget you're using, but see if it does the same thing as my shortcut, if you can set the /t parameter it will be quicker (even 30 seconds seems forever*Wink )

 

And... it fixed itself. There is no longer a 5 minute (or longer) wait when I use the gadget restart button. I guess it is solved, heh. Weird how things change DAILY in Win10.

 

Win10 .... it's magically delicious!

My disk was taking a pounding today ntoskrnl and Search drove it hard to 99% - really slowed things down.
I wasn't seraching, so I'm not sure what the system was doing - not the normal gathering of the clans files stuff.

Yeah, some gremlin thinks its funny to keep turning off my 'advanced' folder view settings - if I don't see the two desktop.ini files on my desktop, I know I have to go in and change it back

Glad it got resolved - you seem to have better gremlins than I do - yours help you *Wink

 

It is not a Windows 10 problem but rather some background processes are causing it. The slow restart problem with my PC was caused by NVIDIA process when I updated to version 341.44. After I disabled it from startup, it restarts almost instantly so you might want to check the start up tab from task manager, some of them are really unneccessary to be there.



@Slartybart
Windows Search is a system resource hog and often rebuilds the search database (Windows.edb). You might want to look at some other search engines such as: Everything Search Engine or Listary Pro | Listary .

 

Yeah, NOT solved. It came back and with ALL forms of restart. I disabled the NVidia backend (the sneaks for putting it there). I am now on Win10 ver 10130 and so far, it's working OK on the restarts.