Originally Posted by
magpienja
Hi all....after the answer to a question re my PC start up time.
From shut down it take on average of 1min 20secs...for the desk top icon page to appear.
If I look at task manager the processes....the CPU has a lowish percentage....memory maybe 50%....disc can read 100% for maybe a minute and then start to have much lower % readings.
Its the disk at 100% that gets my attention....does that need further investigation.
Its an older dell machine with the older type HDD hard drive the type that makes noises as it works.
It has 4gb of ram...a 1 TB memory...processor 3.3ghz intel core 3rd gen
Its a new used machine to me...I use it only to access the internet and view photos.
Am I expecting to much....as I say its mainly the 100% disk reading in the Task Manager screen that gets my attention.
At the end of the day an older PC running with a HDD rather than a SSD is always going to take longer to boot up, especially with the newer versions of Windows [anything after Windows 7]
The only way you are going to get a dramatic improvement is to fit an SSD and more RAM [if your PC will accept more RAM]
I'm running a PC from about 2012 with a i5 3.2 GHz processor and 8GB RAM with a 1TB SSD [and have used my original old 2TB HDD as a back up drive in the PC] and the boot-up time for this is about 20 seconds running Windows 11 [and before anyone says anything, I know it's not a supported processor but I installed it using the work-around and its been fine for the last 18 months or so, including getting updates]
So if you are confident in opening up a PC, you should be able to replace your HDD with an SSD and get a good improvement and even better in you add more RAM.