Very slow Win10 boot times (7-8 mins.)

[donse]

Problem: Very slow boot times (7-8 mins.)
Furthermore slow access to disk management and drive properties of all (SSD) drives, USB media etc.
Also very slow start when copying/moving files between folders/drives and using Finder in general.

System:
Windows 10 Pro (22H2)
OS SSD: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB - Free space app. 392 GB (running PCIe 4.0 x4)
MSI MAG x570 Tomahawk WiFi
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
RAM 2 x 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 C16 BK
NVIDIA Geforce RTX3060 Ti 8GB

I've done:
- Startup at absolute minimum (only 4 services Enabled)
- Disable Fast Startup (slowness persisted)
- Chkdsk, HDDScan and CrystalDiskInfo:no errors
- MemTest86 and Win10-mdsched.exe: no errors (but correct PCIe 4.0 x4)
- Win10 in-place repair from ISO (slowness persisted)

Event Viewer - Boot event logs:
List of event IDs 100 and 200 attached below in .pdf (.docx also available if better suited).
However I have no idea what to look for in order to identify a possible underlying cause of the slow performance.
I'd deeply appreciate any help here with the ability to possibly help me ahead with solving this issue, please :))

 

[Corday]

Did all of last weeks Windows Updates fully install?

 

[dorcom]

Forget the Windows updates for now. that's just throwing all at the wall and see what sticks in other words not knowing.
You could uninstall the last few if you want to and see if it makes any difference but I don't think so.
sounds like you have some severe bottleneck somewhere or a virus/infection because you have a much faster system than I have!
I have exactly the same boot SSD, 32GB RAM and an older Intel I7-6700 and mine boots up in about 15 -20 seconds.
the things you have tried all the things I would've not tried the first place.

1. start up in safe mode, how does it behave?
2. start up normally have the task manager running and watch your CPU and RAM other loads, what happens what does it show.
3. Do a full and extensive system wide virus scan.
4. Run task manager to see what's happening with RAM CPU load etc.
5. run DISM and SFC
6. check in the control panel on the power configuration what is selected. If not selected "high performance" and select "change advanced power settings"
   in the power options window that pops up check on the processor power management thatrocessor performance core parking minimum cores: 0%
   minimum process state: 100%
   system cooling policy: active
   maximum process estate setting is: 100%
7. with that out of the way reboot and boot into BIOS. Are the settings in their correct or the other way around that the default settings are wrong.
   For example, in mine I can set the NVM E PCIe bus speed from Auto; x1; x2; x3 and x4 if I were on x1 a boot will take a whole lot longer! Mine is set to auto.
8. therefore first simple step to try, set the BIOS to "optimized defaults" or something like that and reboot.

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