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[cooldisplayname]

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

[Millios]

2 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

potato of a laptop

Probably this

[Needfuldoer]

9 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

What model laptop? 

 

What are its specs?

 

Which version of Windows are you running?

[Hinjima]

9 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

If its an old potato laptop then this is to be expected.

I had an old laptop that needed 5-7 minutes before I could open a web browser after getting into windows desktop screen.

[BoomerDutch]

Meanwhile arch linux without systemd would boot up in matter of half minute.

 

Is linux even option for you?

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, cooldisplayname said:

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

HDD I suppose - or else it's a cretacean potato  !

Swap it for a SSD, will be 4 times faster

[OddOod]

Given that everyone else has run the gamut of reasonable responses, I'll submit mine: Demonic Possession. Hosting an entity from the vasty deeps takes a lot of processing power

[KidKid]

4 hours ago, cooldisplayname said:

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

Cuz it's a potato. What CPU does it have? SSD or HDD for boot drive?

 

I used to have a potato PC that was really slow like yours.

[jmwhite33]

4 hours ago, cooldisplayname said:

My potato of a laptop for some reason takes around 2 whole minutes to get to the windows Lock Screen. 
does anybody have any reason why?

 

4 hours ago, Millios said:

Probably this

 

4 hours ago, Hinjima said:

If its an old potato laptop then this is to be expected.

 

 

8 minutes ago, KidKid said:

Cuz it's a potato.

What you guys talking about?

As long as it's an Idaho russet it should be fine;

 

[cooldisplayname]

9 hours ago, PDifolco said:

HDD I suppose - or else it's a cretacean potato  !

Swap it for a SSD, will be 4 times faster

No I’m pretty sure it has an ssd already

[cooldisplayname]

6 hours ago, KidKid said:

Cuz it's a potato. What CPU does it have? SSD or HDD for boot drive?

 

I used to have a potato PC that was really slow like yours.

CPU: AMD 3020e

storage: no idea it’s a laptop and I’ve never opened it

+integrated graphics 

[PDifolco]

5 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

No I’m pretty sure it has an ssd already

 

2 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

CPU: AMD 3020e

storage: no idea it’s a laptop and I’ve never opened it

+integrated graphics 

 

Pretty conflicting/uncertain information...

[cooldisplayname]

11 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

What model laptop? 

 

What are its specs?

 

Which version of Windows are you running?

nevermind im sorry I had to check task manager to catch ocd (windows is on sd if you didn't notice)

[KidKid]

39 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

CPU: AMD 3020e

storage: no idea it’s a laptop and I’ve never opened it

+integrated graphics 

 

29 minutes ago, cooldisplayname said:

nevermind im sorry I had to check task manager to catch ocd (windows is on sd if you didn't notice)

That poor CPU is 100%. That's probably why it's so slow.

[Needfuldoer]

What model laptop is it?

 

Since it's reporting the boot drive as "SD", it's probably a low end embedded eMMC flash drive. They get the job done, but they're much slower than even a SATA SSD.

  

1 hour ago, KidKid said:

That poor CPU is 100%. That's probably why it's so slow.

It's also a dual core, 6 watt mobile chip from 5 years ago. She ain't got no more ta' give, cap'n!