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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Beatbox34 · 31-35, M

HDD is a drive that has physical spindles that need to work. SSD's on the other hand is a board which uses pointers to access the data.

Using an SSD would be better if you pair your Mobo with the appropriate RAM. How much RAM are you running?

Tbh from what I noticed Windows 10 consumes a lot of memory. If you haven't upgraded your RAM and are running the updates then you'll see a huge drop in load times. That's usually because of the incremental updates Microsoft has been providing. I tried a vanilla windows 10 from 6 years ago. The difference was night and day.

If possible use an hdd and a ssd to run your computer. Store all your programs that you run on the ssd. The regular data on the hdd.

Secondly, check your startup programs. If there's any that's unnecessary then shut them down. This may help you improve your startup.

twiigss · M

@Beatbox34 I've got my board maxed out at 32GB RAM, so that's no problem. I paused updates until the very last day, because updates come out, and people are sitting at a blue screen. I come home from work, turn my PC on, last thing I need to see is that damn sad face on a blue screen.

I built the PC back in 2015, so sometime in the next 5 years, I'll probably do it all over again.