Window 10 - New upgrade version 1709

Not quite sure what you mean by "load before signing in" are you talking about your initial power on in the morning or do you leave yours switched on all the time? Do you mean "Load" the same as "Boot" ?

Mine has always behaved the same, it boots up (loads?) to the Windows log on screen when I first power on,then I have to sign in. Mine is a HP laptop and is my work PC and I agree it will vary from PC to PC/laptop to laptop and even your own software configuration. My works laptop is stuffed full of anti-virus and other security software which really slow down the start up and general running of the laptop anyway.


I still haven't had to update my home PC yet, which also behaves the same way. After it is powered up both my machines will log me off after 10 minutes of inactivity, then I have to sign in again - but that is always instant. On my home PC I don't use bad anti-virus* software or have loads of apps on startup so my home PC is very quick.

(*bad anti-virus software - I mean products that really slow down a windows machine, I use a whitelist and hosts file and a hardware firewall as protection instead).

Got to say I maybe spoke too soon about 1709 being he same, this morning I am having problems with Outlook it keeps forgetting my password and asking for it again and again

 

I'm useless with the tech side but for my home computer (the only one I have) I don't see any point in having passwords to log on to the computer or the programmes. It is only for important sites that I have passwords that may be complicated and they are either in my head or, in very few cases, encrypted elsewhere.

Anti-virus software etc. is updated regularly throughout the day and checks everything all the time. Sometimes the computer slows down if they want to do their checks at the same time. So I make myself a cuppa (this only, usually, occurs when starting up as it does an automatic back-up to three different drives on start-up - paranoid, or what? )