Automatically starting software start slower (Was: System startup slowed DRAMATICALLY)

rgutzmer

The newest jv16 Powertools (2017) had slowed my system startup in windows 10.

The core windows and desktop portions seem to be about the same as where they were before the install, but software startup has slowed down to nearly three times what it took before. I only have a few startup programs, they are:

Sykpe

Yahoo Messenger

AOL Instant messenger (AIM)

nVidia GeForce Experience

Steam client

Dropbox client

Lightshot screen capture tool

My System:

Windows 10 Professional

Intel Core i7-2600 @3.40 GHz

32GB of RAM

main hard drive: 1TB SSD less than 25% full

All of these apps were up and available within 50 seconds or so before PowerTools 2017. Now Skype in particular takes over 3 times longer than that, finally loading a full 193 seconds after boot (per your own timer) After repeated reboots (hoping your software was 'training' my system to boot faster) I can say that Skype is always the last program to load, and always loads over two minutes after the timer starts (whenever that is)

It is not just that the last program is loaded slower, ALL the startup programs start later and load slower. For Instance, prior to the 2017 download AIM would pop up into the foreground within seconds after the desktop appeared. Now it takes nearly a minute for that to happen.

Not only are the startup programs slower, but jv16 PowerTools 2017 itself is much slower and less responsive than PowerTools X. Simply waiting for the screen to pop up after clicking the desktop icon takes over a minute, when it was practically instant before. Once I get to the scans, they seem to take about the same time as prior versions.

I can provide you with any logs PowerTools generates if you need them

aemurray

I experienced the same issues with startup programs and the prolonged timeframe to get my OS up and running. I had to disable the Startup Optimizer to get my startup time way, way down.

claudiumatei

rgutzmer wrote
The newest jv16 Powertools (2017) had slowed my system startup in windows 10

Please disable the Startup Optimizer and Startup Timer and let me know if the slowness still occurs.

As we are working on a faster version, we care to thank you all for understanding and support!

cousintim

ClaudiuMatei wrote
we are working on a faster version

Speed and performance are what many of us are asking for.

jv16

This is exactly how the Startup Optimizer works. It improves the it takes for Windows to start by allocating less resources to the automatically starting software, which makes them start slower. The idea being, that automatically starting software do not need to start immediately when Windows starts.

If you have individual software you want to be started without any delay, you can disable the Startup Optimizer for that software, or you can disable the Startup Optimizer feature if you rather wish to have all the software load at the same time at Windows startup. Depending on user's system, this generally slows down the system's startup (i.e. the time it takes for the Windows Desktop to load) but in your case it does not seem to be the case, per your report.