Painfully slow laptop

[HullFC]

I've had this laptop for a week and purchased direct from HP.  Anyone else find that it is very slow in booting up?  

[WAWood]

@HullFC 

New Win10 laptops come with a new form of Hibernation enabled and that has been known to cause problems in some PCs.

Win10 has enabled a new hibernation process known as Fast Startup -- which is enabled BY DEFAULT.

This is different from Fast Boot, which is a BIOS/UEFI option.

Fast Startup is supposed to dramatically speed up the booting process, but in some PCs, it actually slows it down or causes it to hang. It's also a new form of hibernation known as hybrid sleep -- and this causes battery drain to maintain the state of the PC while turned off.

Disabling Fast Startup might fix the booting problem.

There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win10: (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.

See if that helps.

[HullFC]

Thank you I'll try it when I'm off work next.