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Windows 10's startup is painful on an older PC like mine. I have a AMD fx8120 on a Sata2 AM3 motherboard with a regular sata2 1tb spinning hard disk. I need to wait 10-15 minutes after logging on before I can click the mouse because of windows horrible startup time. I don't mind that the disk is laggy most of the time (disk-intensive apps like docker and wsl2 are unacceptably slow however) but its unusual that it so slow for so long every single day only at startup and then it's absolutely fine. I'm sure it's probably one of the core windows services I can probably live without, just don't know how to find out which one. I have disabled all startup apps, and it is just as slow in any of the three local profiles I have on this machine.

I realise that other posts say all the same ideas (I've followed every step in every guide) all come back to the same conclusion of swapping out the hard disk for a ssd, but at this time I can't afford to buy a newspaper let alone a SSD, and amazon/ebay both take 2 full months to deliver anything. I've disabled the garbage windows search that I never use, the 'sysmain' service, mucked about with ahci settings, etc. How do I log to a meaningful file the disk process usage over the first 10 minutes after a logon?

frumbert
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Your disk should automatically de-fragment the drive at least once a week, if not everyday. Considering your budget constraints, hibernation/suspend would be your best option.

If you wanted to dive into it:

Open task manager > processes > performance tab > click the "Disk" > right click on the most used process and select "Details". that should take you directly to the process/service that is causing all the trouble. I would check again a few hours later and see if the same process/service is the culprit, you could upload a photo and I might be able to find more information for you.

I hope this is helpful, if not, I apologize.

Foxtrot105
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