Windows 10 login issue

[Sneethan]

Hi,
over the past few weeks my PC will get to the lock screen quite fast but take around 2 minutes to get to the desktop, the only known startup ups i have enabled are taskbarx, adobe startup apps and biog wallpaper. I also use bootracer to minimise load. I also still have over 300 gb left on my drive and dont want to reset it. Any ideas?

 

[Hayato213]

Put power and sleep timer to never and remove your password so you never had to worry about it being locked.

 

[Sneethan]

Put power and sleep timer to never and remove your password so you never had to worry about it being locked.

Sorry, i meant locked from cold boot only, lock screen works fine and i have to transport it to school as its my work laptop.

 

[tech3475]

My first steps would be to make a backup, test all connected Disk drives and run anti malware software e.g malwarebytes.

Does the same thing happen if you just wait at the login screen for a while and if you hibernate instead of shutdown?

 

[Hayato213]

Sorry, i meant locked from cold boot only, lock screen works fine and i have to transport it to school as its my work laptop.

No if you close the lid it is meant to being put into sleep mode and there fore the screen are lock. You just going have to re login again, if it had a SSD it will be much faster boot time than your standard HDD.

 

[Sneethan]

No if you close the lid it is meant to being put into sleep mode and there fore the screen are lock. You just going have to re login again, if it had a SSD it will be much faster boot time than your standard HDD.

If i close the lid login is instant.

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My first steps would be to make a backup, test all connected Disk drives and run anti malware software e.g malwarebytes.

Does the same thing happen if you just wait at the login screen for a while and if you hibernate instead of shutdown?

Waiting yes hibernate will test as i set it up yesterday

 

[Hayato213]

Well does it have a solid state drive or do you have a regular HDD? Solid state have a much faster boot time, also if your cpu core aren''t fully enable, it will take much longer time to process stuffs.

 

[Sneethan]

Well does it have a solid state drive or do you have a regular HDD? Solid state have a much faster boot time, also if your cpu core aren''t fully enable, it will take much longer time to process stuffs.

hdd, but it used to be quite quick

 

[Hayato213]

hdd, but it used to be quite quick

Is the computer your or does it belong to the school, since you did mentioned about work, If you don't have administrator right on the computer asks your employer IT department to check if all your CPU cores are running, running 1 core is slower than whatever amount of cores you have within msconfig -> boot-> advance options.

 

[tech3475]

hdd, but it used to be quite quick

Have you tried defragging it?

Although honestly, I would get an SSD if you can. It’s been a night and day difference on my boot drives.

 

[orangy57]

Even with a nearly empty hard drive windows 10 will take around 2 minutes to start through a hard drive just because it's such a big OS. If you get an SSD it'll be like 30 seconds tops from cold boot into a browser

 

[Sneethan]

Is the computer your or does it belong to the school, since you did mentioned about work, If you don't have administrator right on the computer asks your employer IT department to check if all your CPU cores are running, running 1 core is slower than whatever amount of cores you have within msconfig -> boot-> advance options.

Its mine, i just use it for work as well as games and video editing

 

[Deleted User]

2 minutes for a regular hdd is not that bad. I've had it take like 8-10 minutes but it probably needed defragging and I had too many startup items. I just said to hell with it got a SSD and 30 seconds to boot and I still have a bunch of startup items.

 

[Hayato213]

Its mine, i just use it for work as well as games and video editing

The recommendation is replacing the regular HDD if you don't have an SSD, that 30 seconds boot time is well worth it, You can tweak all you want but probably won't beat that SSD.

 

[Sneethan]

The recommendation is replacing the regular HDD if you don't have an SSD, that 30 seconds boot time is well worth it, You can tweak all you want but probably won't beat that SSD.

Fair point, i will look into it

 

[Joom]

Put power and sleep timer to never and remove your password so you never had to worry about it being locked.

This is terrible advice. You should never prevent a laptop from going into a low state unless you want it to die. You should also never remove an account password. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

@OP, what are your specs? Quite honestly, it's probably the wallpaper thing you have set to launch at startup. Provided it pulls images from the internet, it's probably constantly polling your network status until it can make a DNS request. This eats up a ton of resources. Especially if it's related to Unsplash. Use Wallhaven for your wallpapers.

 

[Hayato213]

This is terrible advice. You should never prevent a laptop from going into a low state unless you want it to die. You should also never remove an account password. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

@OP, what are your specs? Quite honestly, it's probably the wallpaper thing you have set to launch at startup. Provided it pulls images from the internet, it's probably constantly polling your network status until it can make a DNS request. This eats up a ton of resources. Especially if it's related to Unsplash. Use Wallhaven for your wallpapers.

Perhaps you can't read for real, but nevermind that, that was before he stating he was using the computer for work. All these tweakings ain't going help him beat a SSD performance versus a regular HDD boot time.

 

[Sneethan]

Perhaps you can't read for real, but nevermind that, that was before he stating he was using the computer for work. All these tweakings ain't going help him beat a SSD performance versus a regular HDD boot time.

I also said i use it for other things. I an interested about the wallpaper theory as it only happens AFTER I enter my pin

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I just use hibernate now anyway

 

[Joom]

Perhaps you can't read for real, but nevermind that, that was before he stating he was using the computer for work. All these tweakings ain't going help him beat a SSD performance versus a regular HDD boot time.

I did see that. There are ways to resolve this and not spend money, though. OP can scrape a bunch of wallpapers from wherever they want and use them as a sideshow instead. And everyone knows SSDs are faster than hard drives. That's why I didn't bother replying to that.

 

[Sneethan]

Is the walpaper thing true? It confuses me why it would be default then