Question Tool to see what's slowing Boot times down?

[PB97]

I'm running Windows 10 (fully up to date) on a Ryzen 7 5700X with 32GB of ram an a Samsung Evo NVME boot drive.

Recently, my boot times have been dragging, and dragging, and dragging. Once I get to the Windows login screen everything is snappy, but it's taking twice as long to get there as it used to. It's taking longer than when I ran from an old fashioned hdd.

I've tried the usual tricks such as looking in the task manager and the registry to see what's loading and how long it's taking, but I've not managed to get to the bottom of things. I've stopped game launchers and so on from running and I originally installed Windows myself from scratch so there is no bloatware form a system builder.

Are there any tools that I can use to analyse what's loading at boot and how long it's taking. I have a feeling that it's probably something that's integrating with the OS that's causing this, such as a service that's not loading properly, or which is waiting for other services to start. Rather than an individual program.

 

[BFG-9000]

XP had a program called BootVis that did this, which has been replaced by XbootMgr in the Windows Performance Toolkit. Alternately the Windows Assessment Toolkit also has a job "Boot Performance" assessment.

There are also third party tools such as BootRacer but I've never tried them.

 

[PB97]

XP had a program called BootVis that did this, which has been replaced by XbootMgr in the Windows Performance Toolkit. Alternately the Windows Assessment Toolkit also has a job "Boot Performance" assessment.

There are also third party tools such as BootRacer but I've never tried them.

Do you have links to any of them?

 

[BFG-9000]

Google's first links to Windows Performance Toolkit and Windows Assessment Toolkit both link to Microsoft. Don't download them from anyone else.

You'll need to Google instructions for how to use them anyway.

 

[Ralston18]

And I will add the suggestion to go into BIOS and configure the settings to verbose mode if available.

That means that during boot up BIOS will display what all it is doing or trying to do.

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Once Windows is loaded:

Look in Reliability History/Monitor, Event Viewer, and Update History.

If the dragging is occuring while Windows is loading then Reliability History/Monitor and/or Event Viewer may be capturing some related error codes,warnings, or even informational events.

Update History may reveal some failed or problem update(s) that could be involved.