Booting up takes so long

[jellygames]

Hi. So recently my asus laptop started taking so much time to boot up and even to shut down. Before, it could boot the windows 10 i have on it in less than 30 seconds, now it takes up to 2 minutes. And after the asus logo with a little circle spinning goes away, the screen goes black for few seconds then for a minute there are just some white dots spinning on the bottom of the screen, they seem to lag a bit. Then the windows logo appears and it finally boots. I have tried everything and i searched so many forums. I have tried uninstalling my antivirus, there is nothing but steam on my startup programs list in task manager, i stopped all the services from msconfig, i have defragmented my hard drive, i have reinstalled my graphics card driver which is intel hd graphics 4400, i disabled fast startup. I checked eventvwr.msc and there are some errors which include file names like devic, devi, dev, de so i found out that i have to unplug all my usbs. Did that, no results. And in task manager, at startup my bios time is between 4 and 5 seconds if this is somehow helpful. Do i have to reinstall my windows? What could cause the system to take so much time booting and shutting down? My configuration : i3 4005u, intel hd graphics 4400, a seagate hard drive 320 gb 7200 rpm, 4gb ddr3. I have all the drivers up to date and i have some programs for my razer mouse.

 

[BadAsAl]

Test your hard drive using Seatools for Windows (download from Seagate site). Run the short test then the long test. Any errors means drive is failing and that can cause slow startup and shut down. If this is the case get a new drive, maybe even SSD and you might even be able to clone the system over to save installing everything again.

 

[ethanmarti1598]

Systems do slow down over time, as the clutter accumulates. But such a massive change in boot time probably indicates there's something not quite right about your system. I'd go with BadAsAl's suggestion.

 

[jellygames]

So i did the tests using seatools, and there are no errors. Btw, i was wrong, my hard drive is a hitachi 320 gb 7200 rpm. Should i try testing the ram memory?

 

[ethanmarti1598]

If you had memory errors, you'd notice straight away, since those cause BSODs. It may simply be that your system is simply cluttered. How long has it been since you installed Windows on your PC?

 

[jellygames]

If you had memory errors, you'd notice straight away, since those cause BSODs. It may simply be that your system is simply cluttered. How long has it been since you installed Windows on your PC?

 

[jellygames]

Well, 4 months ago i changed my hard drive, it was the exact same one and then i installed windows on it. So 4-5 months ago. But i have to mention that i always like doing a lot of settings to improve the performance after installing windows, it takes me up to a week usually. So its the first installation of windows on this hard drive.

 

[jellygames]

I consider reinstalling windows my last resort, but if you dont have any ideas ill do that and if it still takes 10 years to boot ill just give up.

 

[ethanmarti1598]

Check to see what programs you have enabled to start with Windows; things like antivirus are very common culprits for slow boot times.

If that doesn't work, I'd say you have two choices; reinstall Windows, or buy yourself an SSD to replace your drive. Reinstalling Windows will most probably fix slow boot times, and an SSD will improve the system's speed and performance drastically.

Personally, I'd recommend going with the SSD option if you can afford it. Small 120GB and 240GB SSDs are pretty cheap nowadays too.

 

[jellygames]

I uninstalled my anti virus and disabled all the apps to start when windows stars. Same problem. I would go with reinstalling windows cause the hard drive spees is more than enough for me, and it worled pretty well when it was new, now i dont know but i think i can replace the hard with another identical one. I will search more and if i cant solve anything i will replace my hard and reinstall the windows. Thank you anyway!

 

[jellygames]

So, i will try 3 older drivers for my graphics card and see if that will solve my problem. Now it changed a little bit, first is the asus logo which goes away in like 15 second then there is a black screen with a cursor which has a blue circle on top right (i guess its loading) it stays there for like 2 minutes, the screen goes black again and the windows logo appears letting me wait 30 seconds before it starts properly. I think the best option would be to do the restore the system thing?

 

[jellygames]

Well, didn't work..a weird thing tho, in event viewer all the 101 codes reffer to files that are called De, Dev, Devi, Devic. And there are a lot of them! Even when i unplug my usbs and everything from the laptop, it still takes the same time to boot.

 

[ethanmarti1598]

It may simply be that you have some corrupt system or driver files. The best solution is still to reinstall the OS.

I will insist one more time, a cheap SSD would greatly improve your PC's speed and responsiveness. Mine went from a clean boot time of 1 minute to about 5 seconds. Not joking.

 

[jellygames]

Yeah, i will reinstall my windows, i've tried so many things that helped others but not me. And if the problem does not go away, i'll invest in an ssd. Thank you!