With Steam installed, my computer takes FOREVER to boot, sometimes hours. Any solutions?

[Genghis Ghan]

I know it is Steam, because I got a brand new hard drive, reinstalled a new Windows 10, and my PC boots up in about 10 seconds. As soon as I install Steam, it takes about 3 minutes to load and this time varies. I have had it take hours to boot. If I uninstall Steam, again it boots normal, in about 10 seconds. Any one else see this, or know how to fix it?

[Neurosys]

I blame that damn webhelper.

and dont let steam download unless you want to make dinner.

Steam is fully capable of maxing out both your Internet Download Speed and your HD write speed. It hauls ass, but it can hog up resources. I cant even browse youtube if I am downloading updates at full speed.

[Zekiran]

Go into SETTINGS and look for the options for lower bandwidth use. Click the obvious ones and restart Steam.

If you're allowing Steam to start on your computer's boot up, STOP it from doing that, and manually start the Steam client when you're ready to start playing games or using the steam system.

[Iceira]

system spec. use steam system informations, we have seen pc there is a office pc before and some user think they are game pc.

[Genghis Ghan]

This is a full game pc. I built it, got great cpu, gpx 1070til and the fastest sd drives out there. I do not have steam set to run on start up. It doesnt. This is not only happening when Steam is open or actively downloading, but all the damn time. I qwill try lowering bandwidth use and get back

[Silicon Vampire]

Steam is probably not the cause, I rather suspect a networking issue. Possibly even drivers themselves.

Steam is just showing the problem as it is a bit network intensive, especially at boot up when everything else on the computer is also trying to use the resources.

[Genghis Ghan]

My rig:
MSI z170a GAMING PRO CARBON MOBO
INTEL i7 6700k CPU
32BGB 3600Mhz DDR4 RAM
ASUS STRIX GEFORCE GTX 1070ti 8GB GPU
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD M.2 NVME (C:\\ Drive)
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
500GB SAMSUNG 850 PRO SATA SSD
4TB SEAGATE HYBRID HDD

Windows 10

[Silicon Vampire]

Originally posted by Genghis Ghan:

This is a full game pc. I built it, got great cpu, gpx 1070til and the fastest sd drives out there. I do not have steam set to run on start up. It doesnt. This is not only happening when Steam is open or actively downloading, but all the damn time. I qwill try lowering bandwidth use and get back

Now, that makes no sense at all. There has to be something you’re overlooking.

[Iceira]

it take hours to boot ?
this is why we ask, not sure you want comments like you most have other issue at pc sametime. no spec, or broken pc is all thats is left,
hours , man my 486 from 30 years ago can beat that transfer rate, check cable or disk , or interference on the bus in transfer data.

and worst part of this this is not even a joke , you most have other issue if it take more then 5-10 minutes if steam check all games, do not the more games you have the more check ups.
even my old laptop, dont check over 2 minutes.

[Zekiran]

If your computer has ever taken "hours" to boot I guarantee that there's a hardware failure.

Don't forget that even components literally fresh out of the box *can be broken already*.

If you try what I suggest a few times and see whether Steam is *actually* the problem (which ... it isn't, it really is not) you should then start to look at components and pieces of the hardware.

[Iceira]

dont get caught in OC and lack of Drivers and Bios update, this is Mandatory for most experience user. ( i did not say you cant make such mistake, its just not good to have such issue then we should know better. )

[Neurosys]

even if that dudes pc is potato, steam still has a resource issue, at least in win10.

I've been wondering lately if disabling HW-Accel might help, scared how it might look though, dont see why it needs 7 webhelper processes to run a shaded browser control. Had trouble with EA's webhelper in Origin as well. I think you might also have a point about network issues, but no app should hard sleep the entire box waiting on a network response.

I ran steam like a maniac with fewer issues in win7x64 which I stayed on until I got my Index (VR pretty much demanded win10)

[colzz]

Settings > Interface > Disable 'Run Steam when my computer starts'

[Iceira]

@Genghis Ghan let me try make it simple , get a Friends laptop you know works at hes place to ruleout all things at your places, and i bet will accept either i have a pc issue or not, no matter what user option you did or not, my 10 yeard old laptop can boot faster then yours. in steam with whatever 10 webcache steam has or not has and its still your job to ruleout steam setting, and other windows or setup, and what disk can do in transfer rates.

this might sounds odd to you , but no matter if you have interference or not on cable or disk or controll or app doing it, all this still you are in trouble and can be hard for pc owner to ID , this is why i recommend try get another pc to help you with not a steam issue but pc issue , and why you try gather proof of it.

this is to ruleout alot of things wifi or bad network to whatever, to have multi pc in own house can actual help with faulth finding.

happy hunting for the bug.

plenty of other post with
with chkdsk, windows SFC and other standard advice
there is alot of things to check.