If your Windows-based computer is booting slowly, it may not be a hardware problem. You can see which apps launch at startup and disable some if needed.
Windows 11 hasn’t seen the growth numbers Microsoft was probably hoping it would, but it still makes up nearly 20% of Windows installs, according to AdDuplex. Although there have been a lot of complaints about its launch, Microsoft continues to put a lot of work into making Windows 11 feel fresh, with most of that work centering on a visual redesign and consolidating menus and settings that were fragmented after Windows 8 and 10. Overall, Windows 11 was tailored to feel and look more modern, and its hardware requirements mean it should, in theory, only run on modern computers, allowing users to get the full benefit of Microsoft’s reworked operating system.
Back in the days when the dinosaurs of the tech world — mechanical hard drives — roamed the earth, it was normal for a computer to take several minutes to boot up, and even longer if you had a particularly slow drive. Nowadays, though, a system with a solid-state drive (SSD) should boot in well under 30 seconds, even on low-end hardware.
