@MikeBarden
The fullness of the drive has no effect on the booting time unless it is nearly 100% full.
A PC with 8GB RAM boots no faster than a PC with 4GB of RAM.
Unless you are running Win10 v20H2 Build 19042.662 -- you do not have the latest version of Win10 running. But that said, the version of the Win10 release will have no affect on the boot time.
Without your model number, I have to guess you are using an HDD, not an SSD, and three minutes is not unusual for that kind of drive.
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