5 Ways to Fix Slow Boot Times in Windows 10

[@BrettInTech]

If none of these tips work for you, it just may be time to buy a new computer, upgrade your RAM or upgrade your HDD to an SSD.... Thanks for watching :)

[@21kpatriot]

OR use the same slow computer, install any flavor of Linux, Sit back and watch the blinding speed and enjoy the realization that it was the former OS which turned your pc into a boat anchor not the age of your computer. Now use your money for something FUN!

[@tophers3756]

I was about to comment regarding RAM and SSD. Those two things, often in that order, are the biggest factors in obtaining a faster boot time and speedier experience in general.

[@Delgen1951]

Consumer grade SSDs only last about one year before they die, while HDDs will last at least five years, this makes SSD NOT reliable for extended use.

[@jejakaalammaya8405]

Use SSHD Seagate FireCuda.. Boombastic fantastic ;-D

[@Micharus]

Slow boot time could also be an indicator of something more serious. My PC slowed down quite a bit, then started to give me 'restart to fix disk error' messages. I went and got myself exactly the same drive (WD Black 1TB), cloned the C: drive to it, switched the old one for the new and everything is good now. Boots faster and no more disk errors.

[@zenohh9008]

Anyone else watching while your computer/laptop is booting?

[@jeai]

How did you do that

[@KingElie]

Yeah

[@harmproductions4422]

Me lol

[@arshigupta9076]

Yeah

[@DenlixCutix]

How Did you know

[@SnJ0618]

I turned on my pc, watched this video on my phone while my pc boots, video finishes, my pc still booting.

[@alteregold4814]

Good for you because my default browser (chrome) is slow asf when clicked and is also just fast when it gets hot

[@masterbhushan959]

Did same happened same😶

[@rifatislam5836]

Same thing

[@momorica5402]

Same °^°

[@HSYT-xw4vo]

Me too

[@cry2love]

I remember the old days when the boot-up was in minutes, sometimes a dozen Now 30 seconds seems like an eternity

[@haarkasserecords8294]

true man

[@nonononoway463]

Wait What 30 seconds mine is 5 minutes but stillin getting device ready huhuhu so poor

[@AA-zm9hk]

@@KyLe-og2qk pcie 4.0 ssd my guy

[@phoenixsl3400]

3 minute and 45 second...lol..

[@flucazade]

30 seconds is too long!!!!

[@gdudbdbekfhf5146]

Would love to follow this video but I am still waiting for my computer to turn on

[@moric4677]

xD

[@kyleesmeralda205]

Loool

[@thematerwelon178]

Lmao same XD

[@yajjathiscool_1052]

Seriously my comp takes 10mins

[@Jesuisderetour88]

Haha same! Fucking technology. I have a love hate relationship with it.

[@tanzilahmed855]

Rise your hands up if your pc takes more than 5 minutes to start up.🥴

[@bounaimwanissa9708]

Mine can take more than 20 min

[@tanzilahmed855]

@@bounaimwanissa9708 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robertnitschke89]

We did not talk about slow computers until windows 10 came along. Windows 10 is a snail.

[@harshkumar7519]

Its tru after i updated my pc from win7 to win10 its very slow now times

[@GriLoGuiN01]

Windows 10 taking 3 minutes to start, it keeps rotating balls on the Windows logo screen ... OBS. Im using ssd...

[@KrazyPz]

Mine took 10-11 minutes once bruh

[@granadestunner3932]

20 mins here and counting

[@thedracula3039]

Mine takes 5-6 mins with 2 TB HDD, is that Normal

[@sunandathete9530]

@@thedracula3039 no

[@thedracula3039]

@@sunandathete9530 i changed the setting after seeing the video but i did the opposite of what was said in video and now my laptop boots in 2 mins and 3 mins max not more than that

[@dhanenheadimartile2976]

my sister turned my pc off 3 times today and in the time my pc used to turn on i couldve graduated college

[@james.8985]

WOW THANKS !!! This is a totally different unit mate it's bloody AWWWWSOME 🤙🤙

[@darkdelta]

Good info! I've been meaning to say you have really good intro graphics, audio, and music. Nicely done!

[@Jamilkhalili]

I must admit, I was a bit skeptical at first about turning off the fast startup option. But I decided to give it a shot, and boy, am I glad I did! My Windows now boots up at lightning speed, and I couldn't be happier. It's little things like this that remind me why I'm glad I pay for internet. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge and helping people like me fix their tech issues. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@theretrobitboy6901]

I actually have to wait a while to try this because my pc is still booting up🤣😂

[@harthikk1691]

My pc will take atleast 45 minutes for booting

[@akramboss72]

My pc took 34 sec now it took 11 sec cuz my ram is high I guess

[@jackthebeenstalker2492]

As soon as you update windows, the fast boot issue will return. So in order to terminally fix this, disable fastboot from your bios.

[@xvleonel]

How?

[@Axmavt]

Wow my computer started up 100% better than before 😮

[@Booseebean]

My recommended was 1919 and my actual was 8937 😂

[@paulm5935]

I've always practiced creating a fixed-size, LARGE page file that's either at, or slightly larger than the recommended size given by Windows. Furthermore, this at least gets placed on it's own, separate partition, that I may even locate on a completely separate physical HDD. As HDD space has become less & less expensive - why not? Avoiding the dynamic size allocation usually defaulted by Windows, means file fragmentation should be eliminated. Otherwise, de-fragging this is NEVER possible, since the OS always (theoretically) has this file open and in use. So by creating it once, at a fixed size, means NEVER having any fragmentation. Locating the dedicated partition on a separate, non-system HDD assures no simultaneous (single) r/w head bottle necks. With the advent of SSD's, however, this has become less and less of an issue.

[@paulm5935]

Hello @ZherkaDiary - In this case I would say more is better. But it's really disk space/virtual memory, not RAM. As a rule thumb, I always round up 100MB. Having too little might impact performance, so for 100MB, why not?

[@21kpatriot]

Don't worry people, the next "update" will fix your fix, happy Windows 10 using!

[@ComputerHelpHawaii]

lol or break it

[@faisallmm2109]

😂👍

[@rizalpaullian126]

the problem is i dont want to update my windows, cause im tweak on my windows and if i update, everything what i've been done on my windows will be reset the windows and it make me to do tweak again, like ugghhh what different.. just do some interface but it still a windowss....

[@sunitasingh381]

Dude, shame on Bill Gates

[@sunitasingh381]

That bill Gates eat my i3 3220 and 8gb ram just like chocolates

[@jtmichaelson]

My God! This is the single most useful video I've seen all year. THANK YOU! I went from 20 minute startup to 3 minutes. This is amazing! I was about to go get my PC looked at. Absolutely amazing!

[@jonvincentmusic]

3 minutes is goddamn awful, but of course compared to the 20 minutes you waited before, you must feel like someone just shoved a bi-turbo up it's ass.

[@Luu-luu]

Mine took 7 minutes to boot up and I thought it was super slow. Now that I see yours took 20 minutes I'm not complaining. Took my laptop to get it's HDD change to an SSD. Can't wait to boot it up and do some benchmarks.

[@biophype]

@@jonvincentmusic great comment

[@JuanEnamoradoChannel]

Helping me to a fast and rapid startup

[@IslamicEducationOfficial000]

bro what kinda computer do u have?

[@mudomudito]

Tip 1, finally I know what to do. Thanks.

[@ashwinikumar9351]

Thanks a lot! My computer was taking 3 minutes to be a startup. But after doing setting as suggested by you. It is taking only 1 minute. Thanks again!!!

[@xthatwhiteguyx]

The ultimate problem in Windows 10 is that there's some random, useless update every few hours, every single day, that it wants to install every time you boot the computer, which makes it take 5-10 minutes... even years and years later.

[@DeathStrikeFPS1]

If you came to the comments first: The top tip I recommend is to boot off a sata ssd or an m.2

[@sinister5289]

systems only a year old and it took me 30 minutes to boot today before i had enough and am trying everything to fix it. all parts are brand new btw.

[@opensesame9493]

This can happen because a lot of junk/cache from Windows 10 updates that are on your PC / laptop, and there may be some installation that is corrupt, It will make your boot very long or can be forever, because Windows 10 will continue to force the computer install update.. it's not your computer's crash/error, This is because of Windows 10.. a few tips that I tried to give -Open "Windows" Folder on your harddisk -now search folder name "Softwaredistribution" (This is folder that contains a lot Cache updates are downloaded, you can see it) -and you can delete that folder, or you can move it out from windows folder, and name it Windows 10 sucks, whatever -done

[@xxajplaysytxx6855]

Can i delete the the folder? won't do bad?

[@opensesame9493]

@@xxajplaysytxx6855 you can delete, its safe or only moving away from windows folder if you worried

[@xxajplaysytxx6855]

@@opensesame9493 Okay i'll just move the folder is that ok?

[@opensesame9493]

@@xxajplaysytxx6855 Yes its safe

[@AfrazMC1]

omg, this helped so much thankyou

[@slyxrs]

My phone runs better than my pc 💀💀

[@adifferentperspective2457]

Warships on my phone while my laptop is booting

[@ryancopetti3850]

I disabled 25 out of my 27 apps... im kinda jealous you have only about 5 disabled apps in the startup

[@savitar1219]

My Mobile's ram 12Gb My PC's ram 4gb LMAO 😂

[@BLXXDY]

turned on fast boot, now it boots significatly faster than it ever been

[@ijamlalol2147]

off not on bro

[@AngelHeavenDarkness]

For me is 1.8 or 2.1 secunde Last Bios time 1.8 sec. ~2.1 sec❤❤

[@Deontjie]

Fix one, install Linux.

[@r4ks0sikor98]

what i actually did is i completely reset my pc and moved my windows from my hard drive to my new ssd and everyhting is faster if u have an ssd and u have a hard drive and you have windows installed on it i recommend moving it to your ssd hope this helps

[@subashbasnet7195]

Unchecking fast startup worked me for! What an irony!

[@leonvanderschaaf9378]

Not for me on my 3 year old Acer Aspire laptop.

[@milind_224]

Thanks bro it's worked Love from india

[@aasmabatool5360]

Thanks a lot. I only tried 2nd and 3rd tip, and I can see the best change ever in my PC.

[@Silver_lad]

I did everything here.

[@He.isnt.tempest]

my computer use to but up 2-5 minutes after watching this vroooooooom vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!

[@nehagad1923]

dude lol

[@akashbhadoriya8993]

Mine recommend size is 1900 and currently allocated is 4352 so what should I do

[@UnfilteredMedic]

I started my desktop PC with a 2TB mechanical drive. A year later I put in a 120gb SSD with the 2TB mechanical for most everything else. I upgraded the 120 to a 512gb SSD I got from Best Buy for $65. It's not hard to clone the drive to it and takes a few hours. Best upgrade.

[@UnfilteredMedic]

@Hill I keep what data I have on separate external HDs. Music, movies,tv series, games, pictures, research, etc. If it's working data it's on my SSD. I back it up to my internal 2TB mechanical and then it's moved to the appropriate external While a fresh install would have been 'cleaner' I preferred this method. You're right, either way is good.

[@bopon4090]

My old pc with i3 2nd gen 4gb ram laptop turns on faster than my new i5 10th gen 8gb ram laptop. Its wierd.

[@waliullahsheikh8972]

Check for virus ;w;

[@Shibtember]

idk why my gaming pc is so insanely slow on startup times yet so freakin good on everything else

[@JakeSnake1948]

Probably cause it has an hdd like mine

[@Thanos-pr1ph]

HDD is a trouble

[@PDRich]

Thanks Brett, after a windows up/down-date earlier on this year, my PC decided to use the whole of my RAM as virtual memory; Resulting in every program fighting with each other to load, causing a slow boot up amongst other problems. Now it's set to a few hundred MB below recommended, it's booting up and working like it used to. Anyway, Thanks Brett. Oh, and sarcastically: THANKS WINDOWS UPDATE!!! I LIKE HAVING MY PC UNNECCASSARILY CRIPPLED FOR 5 WHOLE MONTHS, UNTIL I STUMBLED ACROSS THIS VIDEO!!!!!

[@victor8980]

I love you!The first solution fixed my problem!!I tried a lot of things and nothing worked,but this did,finally.Not only my PC was booting very slowly(i have a i5 8400 with 16gb ram and RX 580 8gb)and also shutting down slowly,but also games were not working and quite often black screens would appear,i was really worried since i did not know why that was happening.

[@Onibaka]

the boot time on my M.2 is 28 seconds :) ...

[@logisoc8061]

Is it good if I have a 256 gb SSD with 1TB HDD?

[@khat6714]

yeah and install windows on the SSD so that it will boot way faster

[@power21gamer]

@@khat6714 but if you have many items in hdd it will boot slow

[@SIDHANTIFY1]

Yup I was having a 1TB HDD and Upgraded my laptop with a 256GB NVME SSD SAMSUNG SO NOW I STORE MOVIES ETC. IN HDD AND APPLICATIONS AND WINDOWS IN SSD btw it costed me around 3800 Rs in India $ 48.56 USD

[@kevinnejat6991]

Thank you so much for the video, one of the best tutorials I have ever watched. Very clear and straight to the point. Great

[@djangelinfinity]

Wow, turning off the fast boot really help! No longer in frustrations! Was about to throw my $1,000 computer out the window! And pull out my hair!

[@troychrismusic]

Remember. This is not a one size fits all. Depends on a lot of factors. It worked for me, my startup is back to its original timing. I purchased this laptop in 2016. It's now running faster. Thank you. I hope everyone gets their issues fixed and godspeed.

[@XLGaming]

i think my issue is my hdd. I made a stupid mistake and installed windows on my 1tb hdd rather than my 250gb M.2 SSD!

[@patrickarseneault7407]

for memory alocation i have current 9611 and recommended 1911 so i should put alocation 1900 ?

[@hello8834]

@Inimene olen i hv 8gb ram, what do i hv to turn off?

[@vesper380]

I just got a asus vivobook max and takes 20 minutes to get to the page for my password

[@RufusGM30]

me too

[@TreckMusic]

An easy way I fixed my laptop is to put a book underneath my pc to prevent it from overheating

[@krimsondeagle4463]

you need to repaste your laptop

[@marianakkerboom2977]

a cooling pad is so much more effective and it gives your system / hardware a longer life

[@MrTimos]

I use a nvme m.2 ssd (crucial p2 500gb). before watching this video, my boot times were 39-45 seconds long, bout now they're 22 seconds. great video!

[@tejaspadhye]

Yeah 10/10 bonus tip ...

[@berighteous]

My computer takes 49 minutes to restart. It literally does NOTHING but the spinning balls on the screen for 49 minutes. doing nothing. Then poof it comes to life and boots in 20 seconds.

[@choochoochooseyou]

I got my first PC in 2000. It's disgraceful how load up is just as mind numbingly slow today as it was then.

[@vintagejock3951]

Windows just fills your pc with bloatware making it slower with every update.

[@davida6146]

My computer has/had two issues. First issues is it takes a long time to bootup (about 5-6 minutes), when before it would take about 1-2 minutes? The second issues (which I fixed), was that it would always freeze about 10 minutes after logging in my computer... I removed one of the RAM sticks which brought me down from 16 GB DDR4 to 8GB DDR4, once my computer is loaded, the applications run relatively smooth and I don't feel it's slow... it's just the startup that's slow. I don't know if my RAM actually improved the freezing, because I also managed to scan/fix the system files which found several corrupt files... this is my daily computer and I need it for work... so I'm a bit skeptical about changing the settings/hardware... I have it working now, it's just really slow to boot. Any ideas?

[@ashknoecklein]

The part about virtual memory just sent me down a research rabbit hole that caused me to _increase_ my maximum available virtual memory to well above the recommended setting, lol. I don't have boot time issues but I could use a big paging file on this one laptop I have.

[@iulianparvu8797]

I have a fresh install on a M.2 NVME and it feels unnaturally sluggish. Sometimes the programs on my taskbar don’t load until I click the taskbar. If I don’t click it and I just put my cursor on the taskbar, the “Loading” blue circle acts like it’s working on something. But anyway I will try these steps. Thank you.

[@karoz07]

Excellent...!!! Thank You very much...!!! God Bless You.

[@cegop]

Just changed my cache..as recommended..saved 10 seconds in booting. My 2006 laptop boots in 17 seconds. Shuts down in 10 seconds

[@NCSG]

I like your videos, you helped me a lot since I subscribed you. Thanks!

[@katradmlgpro2698]

My computer is a acer nitro an515-53 so hopefully these help my 4 hour boot process lol my reccommend mb was 1900 I was at 6198 lol I'm also gonna up my 8gb ram to 32 sometime and my hdd to a ssd sometime to

[@justmyth9439]

How to slow your boot time? Please i need to get into bios 🤣🤣🤣

[@santimeek5063]

lmao your PC is too fast?!

[@sobaanmujtabahashmi4504]

I had a very long boot time on may laptop for about 20 to 30 mins but I found that my laptop's CD Rom is faulty, I just removed it and now my laptop has boot time of 15 to 25 seconds... (I am using HDD not SSD)

[@harindudilipa1559]

The first method worked for me thanks a lot dude i was really worried and i dont have money to buy a new pc im so relived

[@shyamakshukla7321]

my 3 gb ram iphone vs my 16gb ram i7 10th gen and rtx3090 pc *me thinks pc will win pc:nope

[@Bossbaby4573]

Dude my pc is so slow like all my games work fine, but it’s when I try to open them. Also when I try to start up it’s insanely slow my apps disappear and reappear I don’t know what’s going on.

[@evanultime1305]

Try to get a better disk

[@Besno]

the best upgrade you can make is buying an NVME

[@liam249]

funny part is ive been sitting here waiting for this video to load for 5 mins

[@fgjm3625]

Thank you. My boot time is 3 seconds faster. From 20-21 seconds to 17 seconds.

[@avinash_gupta]

Allocation in the performance tab worked like a charm. A big like and thank you.

[@mike1official454]

bruh how did my laptop just booted up in a seceond?! like what the heck? i was expecting like 10 secs but 0.1 secs? im for real bro idk how

[@afaqueahsan]

Its working ..mine is hp i3 it took about 4 mins to start windows now only 50 sec

[@dejvid8580]

when i enable fast startup and when i shut down my laptop only screen turns of but laptop is working and cooler is spining what should i do?

[@e4rtl3ss47]

It’s fine it’s probably taking care of some stuff and then going to shut down. It’s only a problem if it does that for more than like 40 seconds

[@dejvid8580]

@@e4rtl3ss47 yeah it's turning off after 30-40 sec i wasn't patient

[@e4rtl3ss47]

TROPS I mean 40 seconds is kind of concerning. I would probably run an antivirus or a Pc cleaner so it can speed that up.

[@dejvid8580]

@@e4rtl3ss47 i check it its clean idk what's wrong

[@e4rtl3ss47]

TROPS make sure you defragment the hard drive as well as the registry. Also turn off unnecessary startup apps in task manager.

[@nourbenit5002]

Mine tooks about 8 to 12 minutes and sometimes 20 minutes to barely load the password screen... Now, by some advice I bought an SSD, and... Amazing! I just cloned the disk and now it's incredibly fast! To bios boot, password and usable pc, it's a matter of 10 to 15 seconds! Believe me, try to buy some ssd and then apply these steps!

[@giovanniraad7928]

I wish I could do that

[@MassiveJetGrind]

My "Currently allocated" page file size was 17,408. How did this happen?

[@cig44]

Mine takes 20 minutes to Boot Up

[@pakavenger5332]

BRO I JUST INCREASE MY VIRTUAL MINIMUN MEMORY AND AND SET ON RECOMEMDED MY PC STARTS FASTER AND MY PC IS ALSO FAST NOW

[@Ninos.D]

Deactivate Intel Management Engine and you're good.

[@CreativeXD]

how to do it

[@stevehewitt4190]

First class advice my machines are now realy erning their keep starting at just a tourch of the mouse. Can you show us how to detect a mechnical hard drive from a solid state item without tearing my tower to bits. My thanks for your efforts it has made my retirement somuch easier.

[@bryanirvine6169]

Best way to speed up boot time on older systems - convert them to SSD and dump the HDD. Breathes new life into them.

[@WhiteStray]

Why dump the hdd ? That's actually stupid, put your programs and windows 10 on the ssd and put the rest of the files on the hdd, so wasteful...

[@robertofastec2526]

Hello, SSD are great for boot speed increase BUT ... there is a BUT ... genetics of flash NAND memory chips PLUS one fact. SSD memory is composed of flash NAND memory chip/s. If you read, those chip run out write after write. In few words a flash NAND chip will wear our and this is not a possibility instead it is a GUARANTEED CERTAINTY Consumer SSDs , those under 300$ are made of SCRAP NAND chips that are conceived and designed for expire RIGHT AFTER the warranty period ... but unfortunately, many, dead BEFORE , it is enough that someone makes a slightly higher average of writes (saves) and he already knows what I mean (if for some reason he/she is obliged to use SSDs for speed) Above I was saying "PLUS one fact" The fact is THE CRUCIAL difference between HDD and SSD. HDD is platters that hold the data in magnetic form PLUS one board that drives the whole stuff, while SSD is just the board ONLY. In other words, your data are NOT on a safe platter. Do you guess what the problem is? How many of you experienced a burned network card, main board, TV, modem, during a thunderstorm? Or because some faulty in the computer power supply? Well, if it does burn the board of an HDD, you lost NOTHING .. if it burns the board of an SSD .. you LOST EVERYTHING and neither a data recovery company for the simple fact that NOBODY on EARTH can fix a burned electronic chip ... and a flash NAND memory chip it's a chip Recap SSDs were originally conceived for the focus of this video tutorial: system boot and programs loading speed. wise people still use them with this aim, translated it mean: SSD is for operating system and installed programs, but save data on safe HDDs :-) AUGH!

[@js_stormyt]

Thank You So Much

[@alimhuda3030]

WOW! These settings helped my PC to boot up faster than a lambo.... if i am correct it took about 40 sec :)

[@csababobalo8692]

i disabled fast start up, chanched virtual memory like you sayd. and i updated some windows/intel related stuff in the microsoft store and it is fixed.

[@qormi1000]

That photo you have of the blue sea looks like Malta.

[@DragonGamer-ly3lf]

Thank you so much. I turned off that Microsoft Edge bing think at autorun and now it boots in 32 seconds not 2 minutes..

[@mrvnzmstr1654]

You are a life saver! Thank you so much!!!!

[@MyChemicalLove011]

It takes like 15 minutes to boot up 💀 my pc isn’t even that old smfh

[@BunneoQ]

for virtual memory, my recommended is 1390mb and my currently allocated os at 10123 :/

[@ITSG2370]

same

[@DadBodEman]

thanks let me try that, thanks in advance

[@santimeek5063]

My currently allocated is like 5000 above recommended

[@redstarchrille]

My PC is slow takes 18sec..., Found out Steam app do steal 9 sec :O

[@tenysi1166]

I couldn’t even do this as all the programs were ‘not responding’

[@RakibulIslam-gn2kx]

You solved this problem?

[@tenysi1166]

@@RakibulIslam-gn2kx no joke I kicked my pc and it worked, on the power supply