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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)
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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (3 children)

I had to wait an hour to boot on Windows 10 LTSC. Not the first machine I owned with that problem, either.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    File system check?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Ran it regularly before and after the scheduled update every three months. Also ran a scheduled CHKDSK and DISM. Basically took a full day for routine updates. Cleared temporary files and unused AppData. Defragmented. I also frequently flushed DNS cache.

    The fact that it's not an issue with any individual hardware should have tipped you off that it's not an "error" but just the way Windows is. You can find unresolved forums posts about this kind of issue going back to the early days of Windows 7 if you search.

    If anybody is stupid enough to still use windows this is my advice: Enable the Hibernate option. It saves the RAM to disk and then resumes from there on startup, skipping any issues.

    I actually suspect it started on the LTSC copy specifically after the Windows Store was installed, which cannot be undone.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    I run Linux for everything at home...after W10 came out. But work issue machines are Windows. They have never had boot issues...they have a shit ton of other quirks though.

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