Slooowww Boot - All Typical Fixes Done

Thanks Steve...
I've got a picture as my desktop. Interesting thought though!
Thanks again.
This initially was just a curiosity, and I think I've used up enough of the good ideas here.
I am just moving on!

billyjk said:

@mck
Thanks for that insight. Your process does display the desktop with icons quickly after entering the PIN. Thanks for that.

The bigger issue is the 20-25 seconds of black screen prior to the Win11 splash screen. I can get that splash to display right away with Fast Startup enabled, but that causes the keyboard drivers not to load.

Overall, I think I'll just roll with this delay.
I'll just meditate in that time. :)

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The 20-25 seconds of black screen (usually with the UEFI splash screen showing for part of that time) is normal. It takes my MSI motherboard running an Intel core ultra 7 CPU about 32 seconds to display its Win11 splash screen. Takes my HP i3 PC about 20-25 seconds to display its Win11 splash screen. (Note that I do not have fast startup enabled in UEFI or in Win11 on both PCs. I have SSD boot drives in both.)

mck said:

The 20-25 seconds of black screen (usually with the UEFI splash screen showing for part of that time) is normal. It takes my MSI motherboard running an Intel core ultra 7 CPU about 32 seconds to display its Win11 splash screen. Takes my HP i3 PC about 20-25 seconds to display its Win11 splash screen. (Note that I do not have fast startup enabled in UEFI or in Win11 on both PCs. I have SSD boot drives in both.)

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Thanks for your perspective!

Did you disable hibernate? in any case try this cmd: powercfg.exe /hibernate on

Uh.
HP Spectre x360 from 2017
I don't think 30 sec from boot logo to win login is all that bad.
Remember, you don't have an NVMe and DDR5 in there.
I had difficulty finding the specs on it but it looked like a 256GB SSD.
SO I would update that SSD to a faster one, and a bigger one if needed. Sammy has some very fast ones.
This will take a bit of googling to find the specs on the SSD you have vs faster ones. Non Sammy (samsung) ones are cheaper, but I personally avoid them.

I assume it does not have an NVMe port in it so that would be out, but that is what you really wish it had, with a 4x4 socket. Nope. Onward!

Next you would want to look at memory - both more and faster memory will help a bit, but not night and day change. A bit.

After having upgraded both of those, I would have you rt click on taskbar and choose Task Manager, and highlight the CPU column, RIGHT after the desktop first appears and see if there is anything obvious there. Also, in Task Manager, click on startup apps and see if anything obvious could be disabled.

I would have other suggestions after that, but I think the biggest will be if you can get a faster SSD. Win has to do an awful lot of stuff to get to the logon screen. A faster drive will help a chunk.

billyjk said:

I've got an HP Spectre x360 from 2017 that is healthy in all other respects. I upgraded "manually" to Win11 years back and just recently upgraded to 24H2. The laptop has TPM 2.0, but has a proc that is just outside of MS specs. Still, Win11 runs reliably and rather snappy. The problem is that on boot, after the HP logo/BIOS boot, Windows takes about 30 seconds to show the logon page. Then, it can take a while to open to the desktop. It has never been anywhere near this slow in the years I've owned this machine.

I know that I can go back to the previous version of Win11, but I'd like to try to work this out if I can. I've done all of the typical "fixes" from disabling FastBoot, to limiting startup programs and more - all the stuff that routine YouTube videos cover. With FastBoot enabled, it's faster for sure, but my keyboard drivers don't seem to be loading and I have no access to the keyboard.

So, are there any fixes, hacks, etc., that you would recommend?
TIA!
-bjk

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Please accept the boot trace offer from Zinou in post #3.
He is an expert in WPR interpretation.