Windows 10: Excessive boot time and sporadic 'stalling' during normal operation

Hi
I've a Sony Viao laptop i5-3230M, 8GB RAM which originally came with Win7 pre-installed. I took the plunge to upgrade to Windows 10 Home (currently version 1903 (OS Build 10.0.18362.900) whilst it was available. Since then, 'cold' boot times of > 10 mins are not unusual and once running, Windows periodically stalls for several seconds during which time applications freeze whilst the OS is busy doing something. I've updated drivers, disabled all non-essential applications on startup, disabled anti-virus software but nothing seems to make any difference.

One thing I have noticed is that Performance Monitor indicates a spike in HDD activity during the 'frozen' periods, and the processes appearing to be responsible are \System32 processes referencing wofcompresseddata. Some cursory investigation has revealed that updates like mine typically result in Windows running from compressed files, which therefore require 'dynamic' decompression to operate. I'm tempted therefore to decompress my \System32 folder to see if it improves performance (there is 500GB free on the HDD) but I'm anxious to hear of anyone's successfully done this, or would advise for/against giving it a try...

Many thanks

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Excessive boot time and sporadic 'stalling' during normal operation

Hi
I've a Sony Viao laptop i5-3230M, 8GB RAM which originally came with Win7 pre-installed. I took the plunge to upgrade to Windows 10 Home (currently version 1903 (OS Build 10.0.18362.900) whilst it was available. Since then, 'cold' boot times of > 10 mins are not unusual and once running, Windows periodically stalls for several seconds during which time applications freeze whilst the OS is busy doing something. I've updated drivers, disabled all non-essential applications on startup, disabled anti-virus software but nothing seems to make any difference.

One thing I have noticed is that Performance Monitor indicates a spike in HDD activity during the 'frozen' periods, and the processes appearing to be responsible are \System32 processes referencing wofcompresseddata. Some cursory investigation has revealed that updates like mine typically result in Windows running from compressed files, which therefore require 'dynamic' decompression to operate. I'm tempted therefore to decompress my \System32 folder to see if it improves performance (there is 500GB free on the HDD) but I'm anxious to hear of anyone's successfully done this, or would advise for/against giving it a try...

Many thanks

 

laptop doesnt boot automatically

This is what happened.

1. Did a repair install and later disabled hibertnate in CMD.
2. Enabled legacy option ROM in BIOS.
3. After a few times startup ( i used the system in such mode for 5 days), changed boot option back to default.
4. Vola!! It boots automatically to win10 without any keypress. Tested it with many starts to confirm the same.
5. Re-enabled hibernate option using CMD and later selected Fast Startup.
6. System booted normally, without the need for any keypress.

I do not know exactly whether such steps resolved the problem or what else happened, hence cannot suggest above steps.

Many thanks to all members who helped to troubleshoot problems.

 

Having issues with boot time on my gaming pc

I looked around online and can't seem to find anything other than the Safe Mode boot logging that is in windows itself.. Any suggestions for boot logging software ?