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Windows 10 takes 1 minute to boot
Hello everyone,
I have a lenovo y50 laptop with some decent specs:
(i7-4700HQ, 8 GB Ram, Gtx 860m, 1TB HDD + 8 GB SSHD [Potential Problem Cause]). The HDD is WDC WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB
I never remember that my laptop had better boot times than 40 seconds. Every since I updated to Windows 10 things have gotten worse. My laptop takes about 1 minute + to boot. I click the button, BIOS boots in 3 seconds, Windows logo shows with the circle dot for a good 10 seconds then the screen turns black. It stays like that for 30 seconds or more. After that The screen turns blue while showing Welcome or Please Wait and finally it enters Desktop.
What I have tried so far:
1.Disabling Services on Startup
This is clearly not the problem, I turned off almost everything, tried a clean boot, nothing helped.
2. Playing with Boot Options on msconfig
Changed Timeout Seconds, Check "No GUI", change max boot cores etc. Nothing helped.
3. Played with a lot of Registry values on regedit
Changed many things some values from 5000 to 1000, I edited and reverted so much things I can't remember.
While playing with these [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management]DisablePagingExecutive=1
LargeSystemCache=1
I got the next boot to be 22 seconds, everything went back after the next boot, so I changed them back to 0.
POTENTIAL PROBLEM CAUSES:
1.As I have read everywhere, it turns out the HDD this laptop has is awful, I can upload some benchmarks of its speed if needed.
2.This laptop has a strange way to switch between graphics, it uses the Intel built in one for small use( probably for booting to ) , and the Nvidia Gtx 860m for heavy use and gaming.
I tried removing the Intel graphics driver and the boot times got worse. I really think it's related to the Intel graphics because after Windows circle the screen goes black ( Sometimes the circle dots show again this time lagging)
3. I ran a software called "Soluto" and found that multiple instances of Scvhost.exe run on boot so I don't know if that can be a problem.
I would love for someone to connect the dots and direct me to the real problem, some broken drivers or a broken HDD. I saw people with the same laptop which can boot in 20 seconds. I once got a boot of 22 seconds which kinda told me this laptop has the potential to be fixed I just need to find the right cause.
Sorry for the long post :)