[badc0ffee]

> For months my windows 10 install would take nearly 5 minutes to start up after a full shutdown sequence.

I know you're not asking for tech support here, but I wanted to share that a friend's laptop was doing this, and the problem turned out to be a massive amount of files in %TEMP%. So many that I had to write a little PowerShell script to remove them all.

[cmehdy]

Powershell is a great scripting language, but when you want to massively delete stuff I strongly suggest you use "robocopy /MIR" with an empty folder as source to be "mirrored". Much faster, better multithreaded performance, decent logging. It will save you a ton of time if we're talking about large and/or numerous files.

[pixl97]

/MIR /MT:16

Kick those threads way up.

[soco]

Historically, when my Windows was getting slow first thing I'd empty the thrash. Often it was the answer.

[marysol5]

Which in the grand scheme of things, shouldn't "slow down" a system. But this is Windows where it burns IO for no reason