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Boggin:
That was unusual - I didn't receive any email notifications for your replies after your first one.

That sounds like it's had the equivalent of a cold boot which can sometimes resolve issues - but is a new one on me as a cure for a slow boot.

A cold boot is when you shutdown - remove all sources of power then hold the power button in for about 30 secs and then reconnect the power source(s) and switch back on.

The powercfg command I asked you to perform was to reset the Hiberfil file as it can get bloated and use up to 75% of your RAM on Start up.

It would also switch Fast Start off and then on when Hibernate was re-enabled which can also improve start up times.

To prevent Hibernate from becoming bloated you can also use the command powercfg /h /type reduced and restore it to normal by changing reduced to full

Still_Game:
Is there any chance the slow boot could have been caused by installation of the large Windows 10 Anniversary Update that started rolling out on 2nd August?

Boggin:

--- Quote from: Still_Game on August 03, 2016, 04:19:58 am ---Is there any chance the slow boot could have been caused by installation of the large Windows 10 Anniversary Update that started rolling out on 2nd August?

--- End quote ---

I hope not - I haven't gotten mine yet, although there is a manual download button when you go to updates and click on Learn more.

I've heard the update takes about an hour, but that may depend upon download speed.

Still_Game:
As I've posted before, I'm sticking with W7 until I have to replace my two somewhat elderly computers - it just occured to me that a computer that had just downloaded the large new W10 update might be slow to perform its first subsequent reboot.

Boggin:
No - from the opening post it had been happening for the last two days which is pre-update.

Sounds as if the memory hadn't been clearing.

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