To do this, open the Start Menu and type 'power options' and select Power Options when it appears. When the Power Options window opens, select 'Choose what the power button does' from the list on the left of the window. We were largely able to fix the sluggish boot speeds of our Acer Aspire V5 by disabling Windows 10's fast start-up feature. įind out everything you need to know about Windows 10 Enabling/disabling fast start-up Credit to the users on the Microsoft Community. There are various fixes we've seen working on our own laptops, and we'll start with the simplest first and escalate to more involved methods. The Acer added more than a minute to its initial boot time, while the Dell laptop's boot time shot up by 25 seconds, time that was mostly spent staring at a black screen. A Dell Inspiron 17 from 2013 and an Acer Aspire V5, also from 2013. In our testing, we found two laptops that suffered from this problem. For some, this process can take in excess of a minute. The symptoms for this particularly curious bug include a black screen after seeing the Windows loading animation and your PC manufacturer's logo, and the ability to move your cursor around the black screen but an inability to do anything else. Many people who upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 have suffered from massively lengthened boot times.
