Long boot time

[Tony D]

I was looking at a customer's machine this afternoon which took a long time to boot. As I recall, there was a black screen with the white arrow cursor. This lasted a couple of minutes.

This is a
Lenovo T540P laptop
i5-4200M @ 2.5 GHz
Purchased 2/22/2015
RAM: 4 GB

I installed the machine. It was originally Windows 7. He fell to the MS Window 10 'upgrade'.

Customer is older and doesn't so much other than check his email using his company's Outlook webaccess via a browser. He also reads news on-line.

He uses Norton Internet Security

What I'm wondering is if what I was seeing had to do with Windows 10 updates. Maybe updates were going on in the background. I was only able to see it boot twice. The second boot seemed to go a bit faster.

Has anyone seen something similar?

 

[AWS]

I've had this happen. In my case it was windows update still working on updates. Also a new install of Windows 10 will be slow. The OS has to cache the settings and such. The more you use it and reboot the faster it will get.

 

[Mommalina]

I've had this happen. In my case it was windows update still working on updates. Also a new install of Windows 10 will be slow. The OS has to cache the settings and such. The more you use it and reboot the faster it will get.

AWS, are you opining that W10 gets better with age? Like me (I hope)
and my XP computer (I hope)?

 

[Tony D]

Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking it was updates going on in the background.

Now on my own W10 machine (which was updated from W8.1) I haven't noticed this phenomenon. That's why I reached out to see what others are experiencing.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Some of the computers that I updated to Windows 10 were very slow in the beginning.
I noticed as Bob stated, they do eventually become more responsive.

 

[Tony D]

Thanks Cindy for reinforcing AWS's comment.

 

[AWS]

AWS, are you opining that W10 gets better with age? Like me (I hope)
and my XP computer (I hope)?

It's like us. We're like a fine wine. Older the better.

 

[Bill M.]

The couple of people I know that are using W10 did clean installs and didn't experience this issue.

 

[Tony D]

I did an upgrade install from W8.1 to W10 on this old Dell laptop. I'm not experiencing any issues. Everything went well. I'm not wondering if Norton Internet Security is the root of the long boot times.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

The couple of people I know that are using W10 did clean installs and didn't experience this issue.

Clean installs are definitely the way to go.

I did an upgrade install from W8.1 to W10 on this old Dell laptop. I'm not experiencing any issues. Everything went well. I'm not wondering if Norton Internet Security is the root of the long boot times.

Norton will do that, it's such a resource hog.