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Why does it take windows 10 almost 5 minutes and 30 seconds to boot? [I Love Computers]

From the time the lock screen shows at boot, I turned on my stopwatch on my phone. When I finally got to the desktop, it took 5 minutes and 25 seconds. That's a bit ridiculous, it never took Windows 7 Pro nearly as long to boot, maybe a good 3 minutes for everything to load in, before I could start using it.

I am booting with the standard 7200 RPM hard drive, not an SSD. So a couple of questions.

1) Why is windows 10 taking so long to get from the lock screen to the desktop at boot?

2) How does using an SSD make the boot time faster? And, is the difference in boot time between using a 7200 RPM drive and an SSD so noticeable that using an SSD is the better option?

Thanks :)
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helenS · 36-40, F
1. The very long boot time may be the result of a disk integrity check carried out at boot time.
2. An SSD is much much faster than a hard disk. Your operating system and your programs should be on an SSD; an HD may be used for data files.