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Does anyone know how to make Windows 10 start up faster?

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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Most of the time I just "Hibernate" my PC, but every once in a while I have to do a full restart and...it always takes a ridiculously long time to boot back into Windows afterwards, much of which is spend on a black screen with no indication that it's making any progress.

It wasn't always like this, and I don't know what changed.

Note that enabling "Fast Startup" or whatever it's called won't help in this scenario, since that's basically just a variation on "Hibernate" and wouldn't apply when I, for example, restart after updating a driver.

Any ideas?
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  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    What kind of machine is it, and does it have a magnetic disc or an SSD?
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It's an Asus laptop, and it has a magnetic disc
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    it could be a bunch of things, but I'd check for excessive things running at startup and the general health of the disk. it seems like laptop drives have gotten slower over the years, oddly.
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