Why is my PC taking too long to restart?

BJC1992 · 05 Jun 2023

My computer isn't the quickest, and I would like to upgrade some of its parts at some point to improve the overall performance, but in the meantime I would like to address a few of its problems. So today when the computer started up it wasn't loading the quick launch icons, which would normally load at the same time as the desktop icons, so after waiting 5 minutes or so I decided it was taking too long an thought it best to just restart the PC, which would normally be quite quick, but instead it just said "restarting" for about 10 minutes or so. When it did finally finish and restart and the desktop appeared, all icons loaded at the same time. So what I wanted to know is, why did the quick launch icons not load up first time, and why did it take an age to restart? Any help is much appreciated.

FreeBooter · 05 Jun 2023

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selden · 05 Jun 2023

Task Manager can help to find programs which are using a lot of resources during startup.

1. Rignt-mouse-button click on the taskbar and select the item "Task Manager". It's near the bottom of the popup menu.
2. Select the TaskManager tab "Startup".

2A. Near the top right of that Startup window is a "Last BIOS time". It shows how much time was spent in the BIOS during the most recent startup before Windows started. It's typically less than 15-20 seconds depending on the BIOS settings. Most BIOSes have a setting that you can configure to minimize the amount of time they spend doing their initial hardware tests (also known as POST -- Power On Self Test).

2B. In TaskManager's Startup window, add CPU and Disk I/O to the information shown about each of the programs that Windows runs at startup:
Rignt-Mouse-Button click on the column heading "Name". Select the additional informational columns that you want to see.

To improve system startup time you might consider disabling some of the startup programs that you know you don't need. Be careful: some of those programs are critical to system operation.

zinou · 05 Jun 2023

Hi,

Try to clean the Temporary folder (C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\Temp\)
Boot was first fast but now really slow with NVME drive

joeandmarg0 · 05 Jun 2023

Shutdown the pc and disconnect all peripherals except for monitor,mouse and keyboard.
Then power back on and see if there is any change in performance.
If not,then software would appear to be the cause and a start in Safe Mode should determine whether Windows or Third Party is the factor.

Hearsepilot · 05 Jun 2023

Dont dive in too deep to start with, first run a disk check, then try SFC /SCANNOW then run a Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

It might just be something simple.

BJC1992 · 06 Jun 2023

Thanks everyone for the advice, I have a few things I can now try out. I'll get to it within the next few days, so I'll mark the thread as solved in the meantime, but I'll come back to this thread if the problem persists.

Megahertz · 06 Jun 2023

Hearsepilot said:

Dont dive in too deep to start with, first run a disk check, then try SFC /SCANNOW then run a Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

It might just be something simple.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

Back to Windows, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
sfc /scannow

If it finds any corrupted files, fixing or not, reboot and run again

Then run
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
and
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth