Windows 10 slow boot time

[dankarlo]

Hello,

I just upgraded to Win10 from 8.1 and I encountered slow boot times.

1. Bios - takes normal ~ 8-9 seconds as before.

2. Windows logo loading ~ 10 seconds as before.

3. Black screen (no cursor, after 15 seconds if I move the mouse it shows the cursor but the black screen stays) ~ 30 seconds. Never happened before.

4. Windows log-on ~10 seconds as before.

 

I am using a mechanical HDD. So from boot times in the matter of 30 seconds, now it takes 1 minute +

 

I already tried some settings in the "System startup" menu but with no avail.

[alexhelvetica]

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Hard drives slow down with age.

and windows 10 also I would imagine has a bigger windows folder and the installer may not have configured it as-well as a clean install 

[dankarlo]

Download ProduKey, write down the Windows 10 serial key and do a clean install.

Upgrades suck and break your computer

Yes, I wanted to do a clean install but my laziness overpowered my mind I will do a clean install hopefully next week when I have more time.

Thanks!

[JefferyD90]

Download ProduKey, write down the Windows 10 serial key and do a clean install.

Upgrades suck and break your computer

 

As long as you activated with your Microsoft Account, then you'll never need a product key again.

[Tim Drake]

Download ProduKey, write down the Windows 10 serial key and do a clean install.

Upgrades suck and break your computer

Mines fine but he's probably right.

[dankarlo]

I finally found why I got the 30 seconds delay with the black screen. I looked into the System event logs and i found each time about 25 second gaps after the following error:

"The VMware Bridge Protocol service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified."

 

I uninstalled VMware Workstation just after the upgrade, so I am pretty sure it is not Windows 10, but that service. It is nowhere to be found. I already checked services, searched for obsolete vmware folders and files, registry, you name it. the issue remains

 

Here is how it looks like: