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I've got a windows 10 machine with a pretty fast NVMe SSD. It takes 10 seconds to get to the login screen, and another three minutes to load up all of the services that are set to run on login. I'm convinced that the NTFS driver must be a nightmare of blocking I/O.

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That's definitely not the norm. On both my Windows 10 machines the desktop becomes usable within seconds after login. Might be worth having a look at what's taking so long on your machine...

As far as I remember there is even a Microsoft tool that highlights startup jobs that are slow to run, isn't there?

Autoruns: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.as...

Task manager shows that.

I have to agree with others who point out that this is not at all typical. I have two SSD-backed Windows 10 machines (one at home, one at work), both with much less fancy SATA SSds than yours. Neither takes more than 20 seconds to go from powered off to fully usable (unless I mistype my password a few times).

I'd check my autoruns if I were you.

As others have pointed out, that's not normal. I have a huge number of services, not only Windows development related services but also MySQL and multiple instances of Apache and it literally has no noticeable impact.

It might be worth turning off any applications that launch on login that you don't need. This now easily accessible from the task manager. It even tells you how much startup impact each app has so you can find out which ones might be causing you issues.

There must be something wrong with your installation or you have an insane amount of services. I have around 16 auto starting background programs including MS SQL Server and it's about 5s to login screen and another 10-20 until chrome is running and I can start doing stuff.

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