Yesterday spoke with Intel Tech. His conclusion was my 'slow boot' was system related, & not Windows related _____ Dell XPS 8930 i7, sata 2tb + ssd, optane mem. Configured, built by Dell. The hdd failed! Replaced same 'same size Sea Gate drs. Restore Macrium (many thanks to Mr. Brian K) Somewhat problematic annoying result was "Slow Boot" & Normal 'fast' windows. I thought I solved it with a 'cold boot', worked once! Always suspected RST (Intel Rapid Storage) was involved. With product key at Dell found, marked 'urgent' new RST driver. Download/install, during install, "You cannot Unistall this Driver" proceed, reboot required. Windows wants "user/pass from a previously used email address. Inside windows looks way different. But still slow boot. RST's icon missing from 'system tray' prompted me to research a lot, and speak to both Intel & Dell. Guessing install rst caused, registry issues with windows, & those changes were evident, in windows. I do have prior backups. A new restore, will result in 'slow boot' 'fast' windows. Dell's "Support Assist" found 0 issues. Any Ideas?
My Dell XPS 13 9310 has a single 2TB PCIe 4 SSD, even though there is no RAID, Dell always sets the BIOS to RST (RAID) as it provides better performance with the RAID controller. This is the IRST VMD Driver that mine uses: I can upload that same INF driver so you could upload through device manager your self and see if it improves things. Also, take a look at your startup programs. I use a program called BootRacer that tells me exactly what is slowing down the boot process, which has improved my boot time big-time including a setting it does to prevent a 10-second Explorer.exe delay upon startup. That is only available in the paid version but it was worth every buck for a lifetime license.
Ok! I'll try! windows update, windows store, & Intel tech did not recommend failing to update or suggest Currently using
your partner is DELL, not intel. DELL latest intel is v17 https://www.dell.com/support/home/de-de/product-support/product/xps-8930-desktop/drivers which is guaranteed to work, not later. windows determine poerformance of the whole system, maybe you have to renew this index command line and 0x8024001e means anything, corrupted files or registry , drivers, wrong system settings, malware, antivirus, other broken updates. maybe you should use SFC /scannow and DISM to repair your windows first. yeah, greatis software, never ever. "useful" tools like unhackme, stopupdates10, regrun and more, no body need such crap on a vital system. 10s delay to fix https://www.howtogeek.com/403162/how-to-disable-the-windows-10-startup-delay/ (at the end you can download a ZIP with ready settings if you dare about manual editing) windows 10 autostart control, in taskmanager, do disable unneeded processes: https://win10faq.com/disable-enable-startup-programs/
thank you, did not know about in the ADK https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials...windows-performance-toolkit-windows-10-a.html too bad it seems there exist no ISO file.
Timed stages reboot: @ Bios screen 1 min 24, Winlogon 1 min 54 Pin 2 min 10 Last Startup to load 3min 11sec <total reboot time> Reading Dells BIOS screen, takes the lions share of boot time. Noticed slow down after hdd replaced,
WPA (with WPR) created (with some altered settings) 3 times ~4gig data and when trying to analyze it windows froze. yeah, thats what i like - not. uninstalled, sorry.
this do not harm my general intention that such tools are not needed. thats why it is a special answer in this thread and no new thread as an announcement. maybe he still wants to trial it out as a full version. i still do not care about the results or destruction.
