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Summarize

As suggestions for attempts to solve the problem grew, I will start with a summary of what didn't work to make it easier to read the original article below:

  1. That's my current hardware specifiations
  2. Windows boot screen stays more than 1 minute to then display the login screen
  3. Initially, I had just one Windows 10 x64 installation, then I installed a new Win10 on dual boot to compare
  4. After the new win10 dual boot installation, the boot time was reduced to 8 seconds (in this case the default win10 was automatically set to the new installation)
  5. But changing to default win10 startup to the old win10, the time came back to 1 minute
  6. Both win10 are with Fast Startup OFF
  7. Safe boot doesn't change the boot time
  8. The red led in front of the desktop (disk I/O) is completely OFF until the login screen is reached (so, no disk I/O during 1 minute)
  9. The drivers for BIOS, RAID, Motherboard are the same for both win10 installations, so it's not a hardware or driver problem.

Original Question:

For some reason, a few weeks ago, my Windows 10 is taking over 1 minute to boot. That is, more than 1 minute just in that initial black window with the Windows 10 logo and the little dots circling:

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... aside from the time remaining when already logged in ...

And my Windows 10 is on an SSD!

Would anyone know to tell me any program that allows me to audit which process is causing this delay in the boot? I want to find out the villain ...

Edit

Following the suggestion in the comments (https://superuser.com/a/1205327/905372), I got the analysis:

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But I can't understand what's the problem.

I also uploaded the result files here.

Could anyone help me with this issue?

Edit 2

Just to confirm, I made another Windows 10 installation in a new partition on my SSD, using dual boot. For the new Windows 10 installation, the startup is IMMEDIATE. For the old Windows 10 installation, the startup is STILL MORE THAN 1 MINUTE.

So, once for all, IT'S NOT A HARDWARE PROBLEM!

Edit 3

After installing the new Win10 partition, Windows created a dual boot (and set the new Win10 as the default system).

In this case, the boot takes 8 seconds to reach the dual boot screen.

But changing the default startup system to the OLD Win10 (as described here), strangely, the boot back to take more than one minute to reach the dual boot screen.

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So the problem may be something before Windows itself.

Edit 4

As explained in this comment, Fast Startup is not influencing in this case.

Edit 5

One thing I have not commented on before is that during this minute of waiting, the red LED on the front of my desktop, which accuses disk access, is completely off. That is, there is no disk access for 1 minute.

It is as if the boot is waiting for some signal and only after 1 minute does it "release" itself to start the boot itself...

Rogério Dec
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I can't comment, all I can see with the performance log you uploaded is:

<serviceTransition name="XTU3SERVICE" endedAt="-1" firstCheckpointedAt="140581" startedAt="140149" container="unknown" processingTimeDelta="9223371896274" firstCheckpointTimeDelta="432" totalTransitionTimeDelta="9223371896706" transition="start" group="Null"/>

<diskIO totalTime="29205" totalOps="86157" totalBytes="9415775232" medBytesPerWrite="4096" avgBytesPerWrite="654094" writeTime="6857" writeOps="7926" writeBytes="5184355328" medBytesPerRead="4096" avgBytesPerRead="54088" readTime="22348" readOps="78231" readBytes="4231419904">

<serviceTransition name="IObitUnSvr" endedAt="17965" firstCheckpointedAt="17950" startedAt="16582" container="IUService.exe (3852)" processingTimeDelta="16" firstCheckpointTimeDelta="1368" totalTransitionTimeDelta="1384" transition="start" group="Null"/>

<pnpObject type="Device" endTime="4625" startTime="596" name="PCI\VEN_1B21+DEV_0612+SUBSYS_06121849+REV_02\4+23b6d2a4+0+00E3" duration="4029" friendlyName="" description="Asmedia 106x SATA Controller" prePendTime="4029" activity="Enum"/>

Other than this, during boot and reading of BCD seems like there's a 4 GB file being read.

All I can see from this is multiple factors are affecting your boot up speed.

ddemuro
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Going through the comments I think I know what the problem is.

Fast Startup, which effectively is Suspend to RAM, with hibernate as backup if RAM content is lost is in use. It looks like each time you boot the system recovers from the hibernate file in stead of the RAM, so it needs to read (and decompress) the hibernate file back into memory.
(Why it does that I don't know. Could be bios settings, could be motherboard not compatible with suspend-2-RAM. Could be some hardware (e.g. video-card) not compatible with it.)

You are using for your system drive an Intel based software raid of 2 SSD drives.
But you are on old drivers for the Intel raid and probably for the motherboard chipset itself as well. Your Bios could be fairly old as well and also be a factor.

I have seen issues before where older Intel drivers combined with a recent Windows 10 build caused bad reading performance in the early phases of the boot-process. And that seems to be exactly your problem.

I would recommend a full refresh of all drivers. Bios, motherboard and Intel RAID. For the latter 2 go for the drivers provided by Intel. Many motherboard manufacturers have really outdated drivers for these on their web-site. The Intel supplied ones are usually a lot newer.
It won't hurt to make sure all other drives (and Bios of the video-card if possible) are up to date as well.

Tonny
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I noticed that CompatTelRunner.exe is one of the biggest CPU eaters in the boot trace log. This is the Windows 10 telemetry which is usually harmless, but may sometimes become bothersome.

I suggest to turn off all options in Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & feedback. You cannot completely turn off "Diagnostic data", but you may at least set it to "Basic".

It also seems that turning on Fast Startup fixes the problem, so you might consider using it, rather than continuing further with the below methods in this answer.

If that's not enough, here are some articles that list various methods, ordered below from least dangerous to more forceful. I suggest at least creating, before starting, a System Restore point as backup. The articles below may overlap on some methods. Where they suggest deleting anything, I would rather counsel renaming instead, so all the methods are kept as reversible as possible.

Totally disabling telemetry may cause some problems with Windows Update. You will have to stay on the lookout for harmful effects.

If no method suggested by myself or others does fix the problem, and as the new Windows 10 installation does not show this problem, you might reinstall Windows 10 as a solution.

harrymc
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Yesterday I installed the last automatic Windows update (KB4512508, KB4508433, and KB2504637) and after this, the slow boot was corrected and the complete boot times were reduced to some seconds again...

Rogério Dec
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