Windows 10 came with no shortage of performance improvements, but one of the neatest is its fast boot times. If your machine is taking too long to boot up, ensure this setting is enabled to speed things along.
Speed Up Windows 10 Laptop
The feature in question is called Fast Startup. The way it works is when you shutdown your computer, rather than just dumping everything in RAM, Windows will save an image of your loaded kernel and drivers in something called the hiberfile. This way, when the system boots up again, it simply reloads this file, making boot times much faster. To enable this, follow these steps:
- Search for and open “Power options” in the Start Menu.
- Click “Choose what the power buttons do” on the left side of the window.
- Click “Change settings that are currently unavailable.”
- Under “Shutdown settings” make sure “Turn on fast startup” is enabled.
On a clean install, this setting should be enabled by default, however if you’re upgrading from a previous install with tweaked power settings, it might not be. When I checked my own machine, this feature was not enabled. Either way, once it’s turned on, you should notice considerably faster boot times.
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Windows 10 came with no shortage of performance improvements, but one of the neatest is its fast boot times. If your machine is taking too long to boot up, ensure this setting is enabled to speed. Mar 22, 2016 Windows 10 is supposedly faster than other earlier Windows platforms, but its startup does take a while. However, Windows 10 has a few settings that you can configure to speed up the startup. So this is how you can speed up the startup in Windows 10.
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Hi Parth,
Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this.
I suggest you to try performing a clean boot and check the boot speed is increased then the normal start. A clean boot helps to verify if any third party application services or startup item is causing the slow boot.
Disclaimer: After you have finished the troubleshooting, refer to the section “How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot” to boot the system in normal startup.
Speed Up Startup Windows 10
Note: The above link contain steps for Windows 7/8.1 but it work as good for Windows 10 also.
How To Speed Up My Computer Startup Windows 10
You may also try to run Disk clean up to cleaning your hard disk to remove temporary files, emptying the Recycle Bin, and getting rid of system files you don't need any more:
Click the Start button, type Disk Cleanup in the search box, and then click Disk Cleanup in the list of results.
After the utility runs, you'll see how much disk space you can free up to increase the boot speed.
Click OK, and then click Delete Files.
Hope this information helps. Please post back with the results we will be glad to assist you further.
Thank you.