Turned off Defragmentation and changed the options you suggested and turned on fastboot. Shutdown was 1 minute and boot 45 seconds. Turned off fastboot and shutdown is 13 seconds and boot 30. I'm...

The Optimize shouldn't be the reason. It is scheduled to run on weekly basis. Without fastboot shutdown is 10 seconds and now boot is 30 seconds, I'm quite happy with that. If I find a way to turn...

Fastboot was on until today so I turned it off because I was tired of the long shutdown times and also Deleted all the XML files in Windows>Performance>WinSAT>DataStore and also ran "Winsat formal...

Yes I can tell windows is preparing the boot files but 2 minutes (not exaggerated) is too much don't you think? That's why now I'm happy with a 30 second boot time. If i turned on fastboot it would...

Superfetch is enabled, fastboot is disabled as it makes my shutdown time 2 minutes. After I did what you said boot times are somewhere from 35-45 seconds without including the BIOS boot time. Another...

Thank you all for your answers, I will just quit trying to find a solution and blame it on the HDD. I will post again if I decide to buy a SSD, have a great day :)

So no answers? *BUMP*

I ran the trace boot from bootmgr, here are some results I would like you to analyse (PLEASE ZOOM IN IF YOU CAN'T SEE WELL)

What is smss.exe and why is it taking so long? Why are the multiple...

I'm running a sfc scan right now. I played with drivers, fastboot is off. Next I will try MS Diagnostic Tools, if nothing works I will turn fastboot on, enjoy my 1 minute boot and 2 minute shutdowns...

Thank you for your reply. I never actually found a solution reading other threads and I can tell you, I read a lot of threads on different forums. This is not just related to Windows 10, booting...

Here is a video of the boot process, I hope it helps. Forgive me for the low quality, I had to do it fast.


https://youtu.be/LXPOAn1XrL8

I installed the driver from the official lenovo website. I will upload a video of the boot process today, it maybe helps troubleshooting. Thanks :)

I now have Intel(R) 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller, did two boots. Last boot was 1 minute and 26 seconds, and I feel like overall performance has dropped. Will keep the driver just in...

Installing Intel Rapid Storage Controller right now, in the meanwhile, I get quite a lot of Warnings/Errors on Event Viewer, will sharing those shed light on my problem? Thanks.

​RESULTS OF CHKDSK



Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

Thank you for your reply,

First of all, yes I believe I'm quiet experienced with Windows.

I did turn on all the services back after the clean boot. I thought about running a chkdsk but I...

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...