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Inspiron 24--17
I just bought an Inspiron AIO 24 - 17 and am really dissappointed in in the time it takes to boot. It takes over 2 minutes to get to a working desktop. Only the Office 365 app is installed. It takes 59 seconds before the Dell logo goes off and another 20 seconds to get to the Windows sign on screen. My little Acer laptop boots to a completely working system in about 35 seconds.
Once the system is up and running the speed seems normal. Excel spreads sheets load quickly and MS Edge is satisfactory.
Will someone please help me with the boot time problem?
BTW, switching the Fast Start statues has no effect.
Thank you.
Mary G
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March 3rd, 2019 08:00
All new computers are slow for the first few boots. This usual clears up after a few days. Make sure to check Task Manager, see more details and do some trimming on the Startup tab which will have too many unnecessary programs slowing down boot up. Disable anything you don't actually need to start at every boot, which is almost everything on the list. You can always enable anything you find that is actually needed.
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March 3rd, 2019 13:00
Thanks again. Well, I disabled everything in Task Manager's Startup and the results were about the same. The time to the Windows Login screen is about the same But once logged in the time to get all icons functional did improve a whole lot. For that I am grateful but I'm still looking at a shade under 2 minutes for a cold start. Go figure! I can't imagine why it takes so long for the Dell logo to clear itself. I'm almost tempted to restore the machine to its 'out of the box' condition and starting over ir I can figure out how to do that. That would be the first time in over15 years I have ever had to do that. Boo hiss!
RoHe
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March 3rd, 2019 17:00
When you get to the desktop, look around for the option to make Win 10 boot in Safe Mode. (Lots of How-To's posted on the net if you can't find that option, so Google...)
Then shut down normally, and do a "cold" boot. It that speeds things up more, something else that you haven't disabled is slowing things down.
But be really cautious. If you disable something that's essential, you may prevent the PC from booting again unless/until you do a clean reinstall..
Which specific Inspiron 24 model? We see four here. DELL-Chris M
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March 5th, 2019 05:00
The model is Inspiron 7477.
I'm not worried about messing things up by disabling in Start up. I have Macrium back up images should I need to use one. I create one whenever I make an addition during setup. I have one that goes back to the the early stages of setting up the machine and it has the long bootup times described.
Booting into Safe Mode has made little difference.
The machine seems to spend almost a minute in the Dell Logo before it tries to load Windows. Should that be?
Thank you.
RoHe
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March 5th, 2019 09:00
Bad hard drive - slow spin-up ?
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