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<blockquote data-quote="Toxxyc" data-source="post: 758568" data-attributes="member: 19314"><p>Please do me a favour and run something like HDD Sentinel on the hard drive? I'm going to bet between the HDD and the CPU. The hanging in the beginning tells me that something's pulling resources in that time. It can be that the high draw is pushing the CPU to the max or the HDD can be so old or so slow that it's simply not up to the task of feeding the files to whatever Win 10 needs on startup. Remember P2 means it's in the Win 95/98 days. Windows 95 had a 100MB install size, 98 was 205MB. That's not anywhere near the 11GB that Windows 10 occupies. If all that needs to be accessed and read from a drive, it's going to cause a delay. Specially since Win 10 has a "rapid boot" setting that boots to desktop quickly and then runs the rest in the background. That's why I'm confident that it's the HDD that's not up to the task. A 128GB SSD might give the PC a nice speed injection, but since it's a P2 I doubt it's going to have SATA 6Gbps ports to use for that, so it's not an option.</p><p></p><p>Also, the machine might be specced with 2GB of RAM, but Win 10 uses what it can. If it has 4GB of RAM, it will most probably use most of it to make it run as fast and smooth as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toxxyc, post: 758568, member: 19314"] Please do me a favour and run something like HDD Sentinel on the hard drive? I'm going to bet between the HDD and the CPU. The hanging in the beginning tells me that something's pulling resources in that time. It can be that the high draw is pushing the CPU to the max or the HDD can be so old or so slow that it's simply not up to the task of feeding the files to whatever Win 10 needs on startup. Remember P2 means it's in the Win 95/98 days. Windows 95 had a 100MB install size, 98 was 205MB. That's not anywhere near the 11GB that Windows 10 occupies. If all that needs to be accessed and read from a drive, it's going to cause a delay. Specially since Win 10 has a "rapid boot" setting that boots to desktop quickly and then runs the rest in the background. That's why I'm confident that it's the HDD that's not up to the task. A 128GB SSD might give the PC a nice speed injection, but since it's a P2 I doubt it's going to have SATA 6Gbps ports to use for that, so it's not an option. Also, the machine might be specced with 2GB of RAM, but Win 10 uses what it can. If it has 4GB of RAM, it will most probably use most of it to make it run as fast and smooth as possible. [/QUOTE]
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