10 Ways to Fix Slow Boot Times in Windows 10

[@Britec09]

None of these working? try a fresh install or install Linux :) still no good? upgrade your computer.

[@yeoldegrumpy-git1483]

Linux. or boot you computer and make a cup of tea. You knew I was going to say Linux so you got it in 1st

[@concena]

still no good? use a calculator

[@dtwistrewind7361]

My abacus is corrupt, how do I download more beads?

[@HolyOrderofDragons]

11 = Priceless, he he he !!! Luv ya dude. :)

[@HolyOrderofDragons]

Oh and I got You beat. Latest BIOS time 17.7 sec. :P Not that it's a competition or anything. Right. :)

[@motoryzen]

1:16 to 1:21. This also resolves common problems with getting a storage drive that you use as an external plug n play storage drive between Windows and a LInux distro not normally showing up/auto mounting in Linux too ( I keep those types of drives formatted to exFat for ultimate plug n play usage)

[@ExitTape]

Omg, thanks so much. I bought my pc like 5 months ago and like 2 months ago it started to slowly start up. Now it takes like 5sec. You deserve way more subscribers! ;)

[@5356376]

thank you thank you thank you. my machine started so slow that often my monitor wouldn't start. i've watched only half of you video on the subject and my machine (and monitor) starts right up. did I say, thank you thank you thank you

[@sonicstefan1991]

What would you recommend for when my computer shows in the virtual memory "Recommended: 1913MB, Currently allocated: 8192MB?

[@nomindashtsengel9218]

I have the same question.

[@pogeonepoint]

@@nomindashtsengel9218 900 - 1913

[@JediBuddhist]

I always forget how to fix the virtual mem settings. Tanks again and for next time too.

[@jessstuart7495]

My laptop running Windows 10 takes 10 minutes to boot. That's why I'm here.

[@kaidenmartinez7727]

Yo me too

[@jessstuart7495]

@@kaidenmartinez7727, My issue was I only had 4GB of RAM. I upgraded to 8GB, and my laptop became usable again under Windows. Although, it is a dual-boot machine and I spend 90% of my time in Debian 10 Linux.

[@itsmeminz274]

Yeah windows 10 is worst windows ever

[@ralfgeollegue5272]

Mine is in 20 minutes. I have 8gb ram

[@lenny108]

As things look right now, there is absolutely no fix for Win10 slow boot. Many say that the only thing that works is to throw out your HDD hard disk and get an SSD. However, in the meantime, many people with SSD also get that problem. After hundreds of MS updates, every computer/laptop is brought to its knees. So it seems only a fresh install with the latest Win10 version produces relief.

[@neutralguy2428]

The first method helped me out!

[@markfrederick5012]

Do you mean the powershell method?

[@neutralguy2428]

Yes

[@_ric]

Two things I feel missing from this, a mention of a Windows 10 debloat script and (to a lesser extent) setting certain services to be automatic delayed. Other than that, the prime things to speed up Win 10 booting is to remove non essential programs from the startup and adding an SSD (those two things you do mention).

[@CoolDudeClem]

Hope these help, my computer takes about 8 minutes to go from power on to useable desktop.

[@hirokaen7388]

Mine takes half an hour

[@angelsarwar]

@@hirokaen7388 specs?

[@hirokaen7388]

@@angelsarwar what?

[@angelsarwar]

@@hirokaen7388 your computer specifications?

[@dcdc8688]

Did it help

[@WinterOS]

how impact into boot time this : Turn Off Linux Terminal??

[@wyatt6058]

Thanks dude your legit may 2mins start up now 12sec. Thanks man

[@wolfsangeleyes]

Thank you for the helpful video but I have a question. 5:24 When I looked up my 'Last BIOS time', under Task Manager-Start Up tab, it said 0, 0 seconds. Is that normal? I tried googling it but got nowhere.

[@UnRec0gnizabl3]

same!

[@55whiplash]

I'm the laziest Windows user possible. I've literally done in-place upgrade with my current desktop since Windows 8.0 . Amazingly it hasn't slowed down much if at all over the years. That might be partially because I've also just been cloning my C drive when it gets full, I started with a 256GB SSD and now I'm on a 1 TB drive. The larger drives always benchmark much faster than the smaller sizes. I use Macrium Reflect usually but I've also used the Samsung cloning utility which is also effective and free. I feel like I should update but my old Intel 3820 i7 still runs fine albeit a bit loud. Is it worth upgrading? Light gaming and photo editing works fine. Besides I have a lifetime licence to Malwarebytes which is no long available, and obviously I'm cheap. I also use Sysinternals Autoruns to edit my startup programs.

[@hambaallah3860]

Thank you so much. I follow all your steps. My startup works faster than before.

[@pistonpilot]

You should make the swap file size the same. Otherwise it constantly fragments. Write it out once, max and min are same size, and it's done.

[@Britec09]

yeah you could do that

[@pistonpilot]

@@Britec09 I've been doing it this way for as long as it was configurable.

[@motoryzen]

2:15 to 2:19. Or you could just open that via ctrl +shift+esc That's worked since the xp days.

[@bison345]

Another very handy and useful video Brian. Thanks Don

[@tenrec]

The big problem which is largely glossed over in this video is that in Startup items, the average user doesn't know which items can be disabled and which are important.

[@safwanalhariri8762]

Thanks a lot Brown I'm very interesting to watch all of Qualified videos.... Good Luck🍀

[@taomahNEGEV]

As far as I know it is not recommended to turn on fast start up/hibernate for dual boot systems. Thoughts?

[@gadisuribabu221]

Britec09: 10 ways to fix slow boot Me: Use all the 10 ways 😎😎😎

[@Scarzxzz]

Someone help me, every time I turn on my pc it always has to update, but it ends up failing so I have to wait once more, I try update it on the main settings but it just doesn’t work, and on top of all of that, booting is slow, it’s installed on my ssd and it had 20gb free

[@khat6714]

i think ur have to reinstall windows using a bootable USB

[@Scarzxzz]

Techo Mania yep, I have done it, and it can load within 30 seconds or so

[@maezamora7166]

Thank you so much the 2nd option worked! I thought I am about to throw my daughter's old laptop for school after boot time took forever! More power to you!

[@markfrederick5012]

Do you mean the powershell option?

[@torn1216]

Ahhhh thank you ! i couldn't remember the damn command . Thank you So much .

[@jimmie200]

Sir, you are so helpful. Thank you!

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@althewicked]

Thanks for this tipps! But on my system the biggest "slow boot" problem are the hard drives. Windows is running on a SSD but all the rest of data is on regular hard drives via SATA III. If I unplug all the hard drives except the Windows SSD, the boot time is about 20-30 sec but with the hard drives its about 2-3 minutes. Do you know a setting which boot the hard drives right after the start from Windows? Thanks for your help!

[@seireiart]

Did you replaced your Intel Main System with a AMD Ryzen ?! I have just noticed that ??!!

[@Britec09]

I am running Ryzen, check out my build video.

[@frost8687]

i have yellow Caution[05] in CrystalDisk what does that mean can i fix that or the drive is damaged? :(

[@bocconom]

What is the make of your Hard Drive?

[@frost8687]

@@bocconom Toshiba

[@bocconom]

@@frost8687 Did you get it resolved?

[@frost8687]

@@bocconom no, It cant be fixed i think just take care of the hdd and backup the files it might go down anytime i think

[@bocconom]

@@frost8687 Toshiba should have a free Tool to test that hard drive and it will find and hopefully repair the bad sectors and other possible issues. But you are 100% right about backing up your files.

[@motoryzen]

45 to 48 seconds" That's additional power settings". xD

[@jeanhawks4682]

I love your desktop backgrounds...can you tell me where you got them please?

[@Britec09]

I posted loads on my discord server

[@jeanhawks4682]

@@Britec09 How do I see those?

[@sladjanavukasinovic385]

Question about hibernate on/off somebody said that is only for loptops and not desktops? Also a question about the ryzen 5 2600 I feel that it needs a better cooler for slight overclock, or should I go for 2600X? Thank you

[@Chellybelly_813]

Not sure if any of these helped I think I need a new computer. But I have to say very helpful thank you, and the photo I need. its gorgeous!

[@EelkoA]

In conclusion without watching it; get yourself a SSD drive!

[@hwcentertainment]

Simple 👌🏼

[@Mc20106]

My recommended was 1908 my allocated was 18103

[@new-knowledge8040]

As an old timer, I just have my LENOVO ThinkCentre M58 desktop PC, which is 13 years old now. It takes 32 seconds to reach the windows 10 Pro 20H2 password entry point after power up, and 5 seconds to power down. But this antique can still run KZbin videos at 1080p 60 fps without any frame loss. Is that any good for a 13 year old cheap computer ?

[@Lachlan_McDougall]

biggest changes for me was secure boot as CSM should do a video on those changed from 20 seconds to 7 seconds BIOS time for me

[@advenger9008]

Plz help my boots time with my brand new ssd is 1.47.54 min and hard drive 2.33.05mim idk wt causes this and u pain me to see it take so long

[@NaganathanSandramohan]

very informative video thank you brother

[@hagbard72]

What a convoluted way to get to Task Manager. The option is on the task bar. BTW, my last bootup time was 10.7 seconds.

[@drewgibson16]

Thank you much sir

[@vigetoblue1205]

thank you

[@AshishDhandeConnect]

appreciate your time.

[@kellyvibar3053]

What if my extended monitor takes time to boot how do i fix it

[@KhanKhan-tp4ch]

please make a video to fix these 4 different kinds of install errors in windows 10. 1)Runtime Error (at 180:321); SWbemLocator: The executable program that this service is configured to run does not implement the service. 2)process id-0xb24(2852) click ok to terminate the application. click cancel to debug the application. 3)unable to create a temporary file.setup aborted. Error 123:the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. 4)Runtime error 216 at 00419321 5)installed malwarebytes antimalware and when run gives the error "unable to connect the service" if sfc/scannow and chkdsk aren not able to fix them.

[@tarekmahmudbhuiyan7368]

Thanks for the video but it doesn't help my case. I use a 970 EVO Plus 500GB nvme. Everything was fine, used to boot in a couple of seconds. I could barely see the windows logo, but suddenly it started taking 25-30 seconds after bios loading (windows loads for 25-30 sec). Everything else is fine, all mechanical drives at 100% health and working as intended, even the nvme ssd is as responsive as before. Just the boot is taking very long. Any ideas to resolve this hideous issue? Thanks.

[@Baz87100]

Guys, do not disable fast boot. When I have it enabled, my last bios time is 7 seconds. Disabling fast boot puts it over 20 seconds. Only have fast boot disabled if you need to go into your BIOS regularly.

[@WraithDesignz]

Good ole Windows 10 has taken away my ability to change the advanced settings for these options. it says "Some settings are managed by your system administrator" but I'm the only account on the PC and I'm the administrator. :( Nothing I do fixes this issue. Not a clean wipe and re-install, not third party programs, not scripts, it's like Microsoft knows what they are doing to their customers and what their customers are doing to stop them, and then with every new update, they take away more and more of a users privileges.

[@shreykabir2583]

I have 1905 mb as virtual memory recommended. My specs are 8gn ram , i5 (9th gen), nvidia gtx 1650 , 1tb hdd. What should i enter ?? I just bought new lappy( lenovo l340) yesterday but it takes more than 2 min to boot

[@tkarlmann]

My Win 10 (on two systems) has gone from reasonable to 40 MINUTES yesterday and 50 minutes today! Any thoughts? (I'm now concerned about shutting the current PC off at all!)

[@bijuantony5799]

Just reset your PC.

[@bijuantony5799]

Remove or off all unwanted startup apps

[@bijuantony5799]

Free up space

[@TALHA69]

US: cause UK: cooze

[@IslandRyland]

My Virtual Memory settings are as followed: Minimum allowed: 16 MB Recommended: 2937 MB Currently allocated: 10752 MB This is default or whatever, so you're telling me to change it? Will this mess me up in any way? What is virtual memory?

[@john_chhantyal]

Virtual Memory just helps you run multiple apps at once. The more memory you have, the more apps it can run at once. If you add any more VM, it won't do anything. My virtual memory is 32GB. You should take your RAM, and times that by 3, and thats the amount of GB you should use in your virtual memory.

[@khat6714]

@@john_chhantyal thnx for da advice

[@BulkyHealthyCat]

bruh m pc use to take 6 minutes to starts up i download some programs and cleaning now 1 min 31 secs

[@CantTreadOnMe]

My bootup time is 8.7 seconds. Is that even possible? I dont even know how I got to this video but hey I learned something new and realized I dont have a problem with my boot time so im not touching anything. 😆 Man this laptop impresses me with something new everyday, I swear. Im glad I got it now.

[@dirtyy32]

Yes bro its possible i just built new mid-range gaming pc and i got 6,9 seconds

[@CantTreadOnMe]

@@dirtyy32 Damn that's fast. It really is nice isnt it? I remember waiting minutes than having to dial up internet on aol in the 90's. Haha We def came a long way!

[@dirtyy32]

@@CantTreadOnMe bro few months ago i had my 9year old pc which was booting like 3minutes atleast it was usable xD ..so im glad i have this machine now haha im glad you got one too 😊

[@new-knowledge8040]

What your bootup time is, is not the topic here. We are talking about computer bootup times.

[@CantTreadOnMe]

@@new-knowledge8040 Oh my bad. Im still learning the lingo.

[@lokeshsawant7688]

helped me a lottt tyyyyyyyy

[@NaganathanSandramohan]

You are my life saver. thank you

[@shaheerDev]

please give a solution for overclocking failed issue

[@jefeljaypontejo6618]

Is reformating the pc will go back on its normal startup?

[@koalitaDormilona]

Unfortunately, the vast majority of my startup time is just the POST stuff >.< _grumble grumble_ Windows itself takes far less time to boot...

[@Britec09]

I could from a time when you used to turn the computer on and go a make a cup of tea because the pc used to take that long to boot, so 20 seconds or less is not to bad.

[@muki_x]

you can enable fast boot in bios

[@lenny108]

As things look right now, there is absolutely no fix for Win10 slow boot. Many say that the only thing that works is to throw out your HDD hard disk and get an SSD. However, in the meantime, many people with SSD also get that problem. After hundreds of MS updates, every computer/laptop is brought to its knees. So it seems only a fresh install with the latest Win10 version produces relief.

[@nobackspace1324]

THANK YOU SIR!!!!! Made slower

[@MrYoso-of3wy]

😅

[@_iksa59]

Can somene help i cant run chkdsk it says access denies but im on administrator user

[@benignoczartorres468]

I don't know if u figured it out yet be this was a month ago comment but you have to run cmd or powershell as an admin to run the chkdsk command

[@harrisonzulu939]

Thank you my computer starts power button goes on but ram light goes off and there be no display on monitor after 1hour it shows

[@supreetsingh3347]

I bought a new Lenovo laptop having i3 processor, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD, and most of the times it takes 5 minutes to boot up. It has 860+ GB free in it but customer care is saying me to upgrade RAM, insert SSD. This booting times is so much and my laptop hangs also. Will these methods help me?

[@bavekooff]

Same.. Specs but 500 gb hdd.. But mine take 2or 3 minutes.. Kuch problem ho gyi thi jyada lene lga isiliye iss video pe aya

[@new-knowledge8040]

That does not make sense. I have a 13 year old LENOVO ThinkCentre M58 desktop PC, and it boots up in 32 seconds, and shuts down in 5 seconds. It has an antique Q9500 QUAD INTEL processor, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD. I am currently using the "Windows 10 Pro version 20H2" operating system. But let it be noted, that all h e l l was happening in timing when I still was using an HDD instead of an SSD. You might also want to down load a free version of CCLEANER and check for any "Registry" problems, and of course perform the usual "Custom Cleaning".

[@supreetsingh3347]

@@new-knowledge8040 So, bro you mean to say that I should insert an ssd instead of upgrading RAM to 8 GB?

[@new-knowledge8040]

@@supreetsingh3347 Well look at it this way. Just for you I removed one of the two 4GB memory strips, and thus I was now running on 4GB RAM only. Here are the bootup and shut down results. 34 seconds bootup, and 4 seconds power down. Only minor changes overall. On my LENOVO, running at 8GB was virtually the same as with 4GB, when dealing with bootup and shut down timings.

[@supreetsingh3347]

@@new-knowledge8040Ya agreed..... With your 8 gb at least you can do more heavy tasks... Right?.... So thx

[@mrpenguino2338]

Thank u that helped 😎

[@shanthamurthy1234]

After using the VMWare the the Windows 10 Shutdowns Very Slow Any Solutions please Reply or Make a Video on this Topic.

[@dennisyildirim2708]

I've got a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME M.2 in the boot drive. It takes a filthy 60 second to see login screen. I've done every single adjustment you advised. Nothing works... I can't believe this. Does it always have to be this chaotic to adjust a god damn boot time....

[@MrYoso-of3wy]

That's weird bro..😅 i have old toshiba laptop w/ dual core cpu after upgrading to sdd and clean install windows 10 swicthed to 64bit now it boots up so fast like a lightning..👌 it's a big improvement so happy..😀

[@dirtyy32]

Do you have your windows installed on that ssd or you installed it on hdd? Cause i have also 970evo and mine is 6.9sec and i-5 10600 cpu

[@vincentverceles7227]

Last Bios Time doesn't show up in my task manager, any solutions?

[@GaryBeltz]

Where do you get the backgrounds that are on your computer? I really like them.

[@Britec09]

loads of wallpapers on my discord server

[@gokulpg7544]

my lap is showing boot up time 1.5sec but it is takeing 2 min

[@YourGamingTeam]

If I have a problem and I would love to see a video about it, how can I contact you?

[@vaibhavsrivastva1253]

Nice wallpaper; please provide a link,

[@nourbenit5002]

Strange, before win 10 I had win 8.1 and my start-up only was 20 - 30 seconds if so on a Samsung HDD from like years ago, hope this tips help me out, now it takes 5 minutes or more, it's never constant either

[@Hindi61]

i have still same issue. i put ssd 1TB but windows 10 boot startup take 20 mints. dont understand why?????????????

[@vanessacawley53]

For some reason my laptop wont let me into performance options. Says path unknown, or something like that........

[@robertosuministradojr.4010]

my boot up time says 17 seconds, but I timed it at it takes from a minute to two minutes which is kinda weird. Any ideas why this is?

[@ANonymous-wc4gu]

The boot up time it tells you is when you see the bios screen. It doesn’t calculate Windows boot up time in task manager.

[@abdulmuqeet2253]

What did you do nothing is working now

[@MrYoso-of3wy]

😅

[@pranavpillai09]

My boot time went from 9 min to 25 sec but after few restarts it again went to 9 min

[@motherofnature1370]

When I type the CHKDSK in the command prompt, the laptop starts to be slow Also the running of the scan is too slow also why?

[@antonisliakopoulos3922]

just because

[@shubhamkumarsingh]

doing these increases my boot time🙄

[@edersonvicente3821]

Amigo como faço para iniciar o Windows 10 em poucos segundos? O máximo que consegui foi 12 segundos mas ele roda varias vezes na tela Welcome ( 4 vezes) poderia me ajudar? Obrigado

[@eknaap8800]

Este hombre no habla español... 🤦‍♂️

[@jeffersonlopez3937]

Buy an ssd

[@_iksa59]

When i go to virtual memory i see 10240MB ALLOCATED recommended is like yours XD

[@rautamiekka]

Non-static swap file is bad for SSD and doesn't help on HDD either. It should always be set to the recommended value.

[@tong.tranquang]

Please share your wallpaper, it looks awesome

[@frog7717]

Thanks for not have a two minute long intro stretch

[@groovechampion1462]

Unistall win 10 and install a OS thats not actually garbage.

[@inshafmech3427]

I'm using laptop with i7 8th generation processor and mx130 GPU... But it's take 2:30 minutes to boot... So that's why I'm here

[@VladislavStojisavljevickicmac]

Is it same for Win7?

[@savadkn103]

My bootup time 46 sec is there any problem?is it normal My pc specs I3 2100 Ddr3 h61 motherboard 4gb ram 500 gb hdd Gtx 1050 ti 4gb Win 10 pro latest version

[@MrYoso-of3wy]

kinda bit longer to boot-up bro, mine just takes 36 seconds , just a dual core 240 gb ssd..

[@savadkn103]

@@MrYoso-of3wy oh u have ssd bro..so its fast than hdd...

[@MrYoso-of3wy]

@@savadkn103 Absolutely, you will notice the big difference between SSD and HDD. Put you hdd inside your dvd-rom as your file storage while SSD is for all your windows file.👍

[@gzillaclips8337]

My last bios was 6seconds is that good

[@ranjanachoudhary3910]

So here's the weird thing. It says last BIOS time 4.1 seconds but I am stuck on the welcome screen for like 3 mins

[@imm0rtal_k1]

Bro just to explain 4.1 seconds is the time that your BIOS takes to acionate your HDD/SDD and then start the operating system the boot time is not the BIOS is windows 10 itself.

[@cyberash3000]

done all of t hat and got it down from 15 minute boot to 3 minute boot but should be a 30 second boot

[@lovebato8873]

mine takes about 10 mins before i can click anything, what could be wrong?

[@yves_jotres]

It took me almost 1hour to boot up on a i7-gen9 and geforce 1050 😭

[@marcelursan6461]

We should fuck Bill Gates and his stupid IT Engineers

[@itsmk8657]

trust it has taken 4 mins for mine :(( sometimes

[@goregejones7248]

@@marcelursan6461 don't you know bill gates left Microsoft ?

[@marcelursan6461]

no I didn t , is it true :)?

[@goregejones7248]

@@marcelursan6461 😂 he left Microsoft in 2003

[@Bhumireality]

I have installed ssd in hdd place and the hdd in cd drive Now it boots with hdd and because of tht my ssd has started booting slow

[@Happy_Ghast]

In virtual memory set minimum 1.5x ram max 3.0x rAM

[@thq7115]

I did everything but it still take 5 min to startup

[@markzeusesquivel782]

Change your ssd/hdd

[@Nick41622]

My laptop says last BIOS boot time 1.9 seconds. but this can't be right it takes about 20 seconds to get to the desktop.

[@FredHinge100]

I agree with you. My Bios Boot time is 6.1 seconds and my "Glary Utilites" claims that my boot time is 18 seconds. That 18 seconds only measures time to get to the desktop and it is before the "startup programs" start loading.

[@Nick41622]

@@FredHinge100 Thanks for that Fred.

[@benignoczartorres468]

Here's the thing, bios time and startup time is different. Bios time is how long it takes the system to identify the os in the bios to boot into while startup is how long it takes the system to actually startup into the os. Bios time makes up a small part of the actual startup time. Hope this helps knowing this comment was made a year ago. I also use glary utilities btw, it's an amazing app that helps the system to startup faster.

[@benignoczartorres468]

My laptop bios time once hit 1.5 seconds though which truly amazed me!

[@Nick41622]

​@@benignoczartorres468 Yes I think your right, thanks.

[@noramaliyahnasan5434]

how to get wallpaper like that

[@adrianangeloabelarde9318]

1:05 u sound like kurzgesagt