Windows 10: Slow startup times-unsure what is causing them

Not sure what is going on. Not a huge deal because once it is booted up things are snappy.
Only reason I am worried about it mostly is if it is a sign of something else bad.

My 10 Installation on my WD Black drive became corrupted. My backup Blue Drive was not corrupted. It had some issues with being slow to boot up. I thought it was totally because of fact it was heavily fragmented. Initial was 30% for some reason. I defragged the hell out of it and then moved it back to my black drive since it is faster. I thought once the defrag was done again on there it would boot up quickly again. Not the case. I have cleaned the registry. Did a DISM/RestoreHealth. Malware Check. Virus Check. Also disabled unnecessary services. Nothing seems to work. For example once I hit the password it may show a black screen temporarily for 30-45 seconds before desktop icons show up.

Any idea what could be causing this? In the past everything appeared pretty quickly once I typed in my password.

:)

 

Windows 10 random BSOD's - safe mode is fine(of course)

If you are not using them simply delete them, if unsure rename them and if they are necessary something will complain. In either case they are causing the crashes.

 

Since I put win 10 NTVDM in the autoexec file seems to causing a VERY slow bootup. 30-45 min

Still not fix the boot issue but I did identify that the new version of SPYBOT was causing the slow running time while windows is open. Went back to windows defender. I check another computer for what was typed in the "Autoexec.bat" file and found nothing
so I still believe that the autoexec and/or config.sys file is the startup problem. Can't erase them until I know that is it. I would like to edit the autoexec but I don't know what to put in for the file to work properly.

 

My humble suggestion *Biggrin

What programs, devices, drivers etc are starting up on boot?

I recommend disabling the lot and seeing if she boots normally. If boot is quick again, then you can re-enable one-by-one to find what is slowing things down. If boot is still slow, then you can re-enable the lot and try and identify the problem elsewhere.

**End humble suggestion**