[SOLVED] Extremely slow booting in my laptop

[barnack]

Greetings,
I've an asus F555L with Windows 10, it boots awfully slowly and i exausted my ideas about what to do for that. I don't mean the "it's not an ssd" kind of slow, my desktop pc has no ssd either but it doesn't give me that kind of problems; i don't mind 20-60 seconds of boot time, but my laptop takes like 3+ minutes;
I cleared all junk, there's 80 gigs of free space for the os to play with, I regularly defrag, i even ran a ccleaner registry cleanup in case i might have messed with my registry too much; but nothing, it's still hell slow.

Any idea?
It shouldn't matter because it would affect pre-windows booting, but in the past i installed linux on an external hard drive and linux bootloader somehow remained as an option in the bios. That's really the only weird thing i'm aware of that i didn't solve.

 

[Colif]

3 minutes isn't that slow, I have helped people with 10 minute long boots. Its not slow but its also not how it should be.

Is it F555LA? is it an Ix-4xxxU or IX-5xxxU CPU or model name - these questions apply to Asus web site that needs to know so you can look at drives. Check if you have latest BIOS and drivers for laptop as wrong drivers can slow down boot - https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/F555LA/HelpDesk_Download/

is it slow before windows loads or after

try running HDTune on hdd and check the health tab, let it run a SMART scan.

 

[barnack]

The label only tells F555L; the processor is an Intel I5 5200U,
it is slowduring windows loading (light blue screen with the rotating loading thing in the middle) and right after that it stays quite long with a black desktop, no icon (as if eplorer.exe wasn't running) and an empty blue rectangle on bottom (as if explorer.exe was started and took really long to initialize the taskbar) with only the cursor moving around.

I'll do a check with HDTune thanks!

 

[Colif]

do you have any extra USB devices or speakers or printers attached to laptop, the slow loading can mean the PC is waiting for a device to reply so try starting laptop with nothing extra attached and see if makes any difference. If it starts normal, you would need to attach each thing and restart to identify which is cause.

I have seen slow starts and no desktop before, it happened to me when my speakers started to die. It was only when they weren't attached that PC started right away

Does hitting CTRL ALT DEL at desktop and choosing Task manager make task manager appear?