Long delay loading desktop

I have a older laptop Dell 3580 there seems to be about three minute delay loading desktop
Are there a program that will log what is going on and show what the hang up is?
Has I3-7100u and 8gb ram

dalchina said:

Unfortunately your specs, as is commonly the case, don't include your disk(s).

1. If you are referring to the cold boot time to lock screen, for example, then that might take:
- 3 mins with a HDD
- 9s with a SSD

2. If you are referring to the time from login to the desktop appearing (rather than a black screen) that's a different matter.

It would help to know exactly which period you're referring to, and what kind of disk(s) you have.

History:
- has the PC booted fast than this?
- if so, when did this change?

You have enough RAM.

How much free space is there on your Windows partition?

Note: detailed analysis requires the use of an advanced technical tool, free from MS, the WPA.
(Windows Performance Analyser and Recorder).

Please search tenforums for
WPA
or
Windows Performance Analyser and Recorder

for examples.

SA510 500GB with 426gb free
Turn On laptop about 10 second before bootup screen, after that is where the long delay begins before desktop is loaded

Thanks, I try those once I get back home

I have an older Dell laptop core i3 with 8 gig (came with 4, I changed it to 8). It was almost unusably slow. It took forever to load the desktop. It came with an old-school spinner hard drive and the Intel Optane device. I hated it.

A couple of months ago I installed a Samsung NVMe 2 solid-state drive and cloned the old hard drive onto it.

This change was, and still is, 100% successful. The old laptop runs great now! If your laptop has a spinner hard drive that will be why it is so slow.

Research your laptop components. You might be able to make the same change I did.

Best wishes.

I was aware of that post and have no issue with it. But I suspect the OP does not know what hardware is in his machine.

Cheers.

Trying to run boot trace but it failed..Did find this in Event Viewer