At long last the slow laptop is speedy. The solution, suggested by Steve C and Zinou was to replace the HD with an SSD.

The HD, which came with the laptop, was a 2tB unit that was hardly larger...

I was trying to use the method they suggest of having the donor drive on the same system as the recipient, but it could not work with the donor drive being unbootable, as mine was.

BTW, now that I...

Thanks SIW2.

I think I'm cooked because the drive I am attempting to transfer the apps from is, I just discovered (and in keeping with the subject of this thread) not bootable though it was...

Should I mark this thread as solved? It's solved as having trouble with an old car is solved by getting a new one. I still don't know what caused the original inability to boot and in the end I never...

Went back to Hiren's DVD and used the partition software to clear the SSD of all partitions, and having it use MBR, leaving it for Windows to do with as it pleased. That worked. I'm in business. How...

My adventures continue...

I created a recovery stick using the MS media tool, it took about 2.5 hours for the build on the stick to finish. I proceeded to attempt a clean install of Win10 on the...

unfortunately, this PC came with Win10 installed so I have no installation disk.

I ran Reflect boot repair from the Hiren DVD. Now, there is an endless loop...Dell logo, Windows logo with circling...

Thanks for the info, Dalchina. I've used Hiren's stuff before and will get a bootable DVD going.

My terrible confession is that I have Reflect and with my old PC, just replaced, used it regularly...

My Dell desktop running 21H1 failed to reboot on a restart. Win10 went through it's recovery attempts, doing a disk check, repair but that didn't help. I cannot boot into safe mode.

I don't have a...

I turned off the MS anti-virus and that solved the problem. Thanks.

This is not a disabling problem, so I can live with it as I don't want to turn off the MS anti-virus.

Thanks for the help.

I don't have any anti-virus software running.

I've opened the properties>general, but don't see an unblock box.

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I don't see that appear on the open desktop where I...

Thanks to all for help on my slow laptop boot time.

Now another issue. On my i7 Dell desktop running Win10 20H2 build 19042.1237, any program that I install will be delayed by about 90 seconds of...

All I can say is that (and I have found this true with Windows since back with Win3.1), the boot time is very fast upon purchase and then degrades and becomes a real issue until finally the wait time...

Oops, I misread your question.

For the destop 33 seconds to the password screen and 6 seconds to the desktop with full functionality. It has a SSD.

On the laptop, I should mention that in...

For a cold boot it takes 3 minutes before the Windows request for password appears.
Then it takes another 90 seconds for the desktop to appear. It has a HD.

Some further information...

For a cold boot it takes 3 minutes before the Windows request for password appears.
Then it takes another 90 seconds for the desktop to appear.

Here is a .5 gig...

I'm baffled about how to copy from desktop to the same desktop. Copying from one drive to another I understand, but to copy a file from a location to the same location is something I don't know how...

Where can I find an ISO file that I can place on my desktop, or is it necessary for me to create one?

Ok, I've got Autoruns going. I should be able to copy any large file from one place to another and get the transfer rate for the HD, no?

I'm not clear what you mean by a desktop to desktop...

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

Autoruns...are they something like the autoexec.bat of DOS days?

The laptop booted fast when I first purchased it even though the HP items had not been...

That might be it, the laptop is an HP and I have struggled to stop all the notifications from HP support. The desktop is a refurbished Dell that came with a clean installation of Win10.

I guess I...

I have an i7 (4th generation) desktop PC that boots very fast and a i5 (8th generation) laptop that takes forever to boot. Both run Win10.

In particular the laptop HD churns seemingly forever...