Aren't 9x operating systems just like that? I run 98 and it takes forever to start up. I, too, have many apps installed. Yeah, anything on any hard drive has to load. Yup, prolly all those games. The ...

Windows comes with a Fast Startup feature that has been part of the OS since Windows 8 and continues to be enabled by default on Windows 10 and 11. Theoretically, it seems a helpful feature to reduce ...