--- title: I cut my Windows boot time in half by running one simple... description: Slow Windows boot times are often caused by corrupted system files, broken component store manifests, and orphaned registry boot pointers — not failing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-cut-my-windows-boot-time-in-half-by-running-one-simple-command-and-you-can-too-4wiyzt2be twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I cut my Windows boot time in half by running one simple command, and you can too | daily.dev og:description: Slow Windows boot times are often caused by corrupted system files, broken component store manifests, and orphaned registry boot pointers — not failing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-cut-my-windows-boot-time-in-half-by-running-one-simple-command-and-you-can-too-4wiyzt2be og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4wiyZt2bE.png og:image:alt: I cut my Windows boot time in half by running one simple command, and you can too og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I cut my Windows boot time in half by running one simple command, and you can too **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Slow Windows boot times are often caused by corrupted system files, broken component store manifests, and orphaned registry boot pointers — not failing hardware. Running a chained command sequence (sfc /SCANNOW followed by two DISM cleanup commands) can repair these issues in about five minutes at no cost. After running the commands, Windows Event Viewer (Diagnostics-Performance > Operational) can be used to measure exact boot time improvements down to the millisecond. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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