Windows 10: Windows 11 really slow to boot up

When I first installed Win 11 several months ago, it was very fast to boot up. Much like Win 10. Hit the power button and the sign-in screen came up almost immediately. Lately, Win 11 takes several minutes to boot up. It's almost as slow as Win 98. The white Windows logo appears on a black screen, then after at least a minute, the blue progress circle appears and creeps around at a snail pace. After another minute or two, the sign in screen appears. Everything works fine after that. Is anyone else experiencing this? Did something change that requires a settings change?

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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.

 

Slow boot

Hi Craig,

Boot performance may slow can be due to corruptions. To assist you better, kindly answer the following questions:

• Have you made any recent changes before this issue occur?
• Have you tried booting up your laptop in Safe Mode and check if the issue still persist?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

We're looking forward to your response.

 

KN8 SLI harddrive booting VERY SLOW??

Check ABIT's site maybe this is resolved with a BIOS update.

Do you have other motherboards, hard drives and/or cables to test with to help isolate the problem?

For hard drives the auto setting generally does the best job unless you want to restrict the hard drive in some way (i.e. disabling DMA - why would you want to do this though...)

When you say very slow booting, can you describe it a little better for us? Which takes the longest, getting to the POST screen (lists your RAM, drives, etc.), getting to the windows startup screen, or getting into windows itself?

For a slow POST / slow windows logo, try unplugging the hard drive and see if it gets to the "please connect a boot device" text any faster.

For a slow "from the windows logo to finished booting" I would recommend reinstalling windows. Did you reinstall windows after you got this motherboard? I would really recommend it.