Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Windows: Cold boot slow, restarts fast

Hello Rob

Is Dropbox running at boot. This can really hang things up

Blessings
Mike.

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 04:47, Rob via Hampshire <hampshire@???> wrote:
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> Hi all
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> Forgive me for asking a Windows (10 home) question on this list but I’m at the end of my tether…
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> My current machine (a well specced AMD bought Summer 2020) has begun to boot very slowly (over 2 minutes) in the last month or so. I have a bit of time at the moment so removed everything I’d added in the last month. Result: Restarts are blindingly fast but cold boots (first boot of the day in particular) are 2+ minutes.
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> To make matters worse, I can’t find out which startup service / driver / program / whatever is causing the delay. There used to be a way to do this (F8 I seem to recall) but doesn’t seem to be there now.
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> I can find a boot log (ntbtlog.txt) but that doesn’t give any times or success / failures. The only items in my startup need to be there (software firewall etc.) – I’ve checked there are no others. Similarly I’ve uninstalled anything I don’t know about and done a full scan.
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> Short of a reinstall – which is very fiddly for me as my magnification software has never played well with my software firewall – is there anything I can / should do?
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> Cheers
> Rob
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> Does anyone know whether Windows does anything when it hasn’t booted for a matter of hours that it doesn’t do when it’s been restarted a minute earlier? Or does anyone know how to show each boot driver it’s loading as it does so – so I can see which one is causing the delay?
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> Cheers
> Rob
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