HP OMEN Y3V38EA#UUW laptop, windows 10 boot time takes too long compared to what it used to.

[kodegear]

Hello and thank you all in advance. 

My name is Kody and I have a problem with my Hp Omen laptop. When I start up my system again (not from hiberation or sleep, but the real shut down state) I see the red Omen logo then the logo goes away and the screen kind of shuts down, not all black shutdown but nearly it's like very very dark but not black.. it thinks of something of a minute or so then the screen goes totally black and it pops up the face recognition startup software. It didn't use to do that. This started a couple a weeks ago. Before this delayed -something- the startup was really really fast!

I do have noticed a - well not really a solution - but when my open starts up and goes to it's very dark, but still not black screen mode for it's time I press down the power button until it shuts down again and power the system up and that seems to speed it up again. But I don't accept that as a solution! I would like to know what it's thinking about and why and is there something that can be done with it. 

Just after I bought the laptop I replaced the 7200 rpm hdd with a samsung 1tb sdd which works real good. It was a real pain to remove the covers but it can be done I do recommend, this was like four months ago so it shouldn't have anything to do with my problem here.

What else have I tried:

- I have all the updates installed both hp and microsoft and keep them up to date

- my virus protection (mccafee) doesn't report of any problems

- I ran the UEFI program at startup and ran all tests for memory and hdds and they all passed. 

- My system does not have any usb drives or disc drives installed / attached

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!

Kody

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@kodegearHello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

Win10 has enabled a new hibernation process known as Fast Startup -- which is different from Fast Boot. This is supposed to dramatically speed up the booting process, but in some PCs, it actually slows it down or causes it to hang. This could be what is happening to your PC.

Disabling Fast Startup might fix the booting problem.

There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win8/10; (1) through the Control Panel, and (2) through an elevated command prompt.

Control Panel - Open Control Panel --> Power Options.
Select "Choose what the power buttons do"
Select "Change settings that are currently unavailable"
At the bottom of the Window, under Shutdown settings, uncheck the box regarding fast startup

Elevated command prompt - run the following command:
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /V HiberbootEnabled /T REG_dWORD /D 0 /F

In both cases, reboot Windows.

NOW, FastStartup is disabled.

Good Luck

[kodegear]

Thank you WAWood! I tried rebooting and shutting off and powering on a great many times and it seems to be back to normal 😄 Thank you heaps! 

Kody