Originally Posted by
Abrahn
My other half's 6 month old Dell laptop with Windows 11, 32GB of memory, SSD and a 13th gen Core i7 has just taken 17 minutes to start up. I hate the new Sad Nad Microsoft, at least with the old Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer version you were a customer to be sold to and not a product to be sold.
If you're happy dabbling with the registry, Google
VerboseStatus.
At least that will give you a better idea what it's doing during those 17 minutes.