On Windows 10 with a SSD, how can I decrease boot times?

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I read that others have gotten boot times from a cold boot to around 6-7 seconds.

My boot time with a cold boot is 27-30 seconds. I have samsung magician installed and updated the 850 EVO to the latest firmware. I even have the program and OS Optimization to Maximum Performance.

My Motherboard is ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO.

For the Sata port, does it matter if it is on P1-P6 or E1-E2?

It is currently on P1
 
p1-p6 are the intel sata ports the e1-e2 are the third party asmedia sata ports for data drives only.
in the bios under boot make sure quick or fast boot is on. turn off the asus splash screen. turn off legicy boot/cmos in the bios under boot set the bios to boot from efi bios only. use msconfig under run go to boot put a check box on no gui boot so the windows logo wont pop up and waste your time.
 
First of all, no one cold boots ANY version of windows to desktop (fully loaded) in 6 seconds. Those types of load times only happen if your system was in hibernate/power down mode. M$ built a couple of cheats into windows 8 (and they were inherited by 10) to make it look like it booted "really fast". One of those cheats was to never "power down" but rather go into a "pretend" power down mode, which was just hibernate mode. My laptop does this because i want it to do this, it takes about 6seconds to "boot". My desktop however has hibernate mode disabled, and it NEVER hits 6 seconds on boot, because when i want to power my desktop down i don't mean for it to go into some sort of hibernation mode, i want it to turn the f- off. The other trick M$ pulled to make windows seem like it was booting fast was to change the order things load, in windows 7 the last thing that loaded was the desktop, now it's one of the first things that load. So while you might hit the desktop fast in win8/10 there still is a lot of things loading in the background.

Now as to your questions -
the sata ports matter, but you have it on on the right one
Samsung RAPID doesn't help with booting, rapid really creates a quasi ramdisk, and it happens after the system boots, so you'll get no help there
There should be a fast boot option in the bios, which can help you jump past a bunch of stuff when booting, that should speed you up a bit
-on the issue of the bios there are a bunch of boot options you could turn off to speed up the boot at the bios level
-things like LAN boot, SMART checks, RAID checks, RAM checks, it depends a bit on how your system is set up what you can turn off and what you can skip.
-your system should be in UEFI mode, im pretty sure win10 can't even boot in legacy, so there is nothing you can do there to make it faster
-check the SATA hard drive setup, make sure the drives are in ACHI/RAID mode, not IDE. That should speed you up a bit; though if you have to CHANGE that setting, you'll probably break the windows install. make sure you have your ACHI/RAID drivers and windows repair disk on hand to fix this if you're going to change this setting.
-but i do know fast boot is a an option in those ASUS motherboards
 

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so what kind of cold boot times should I expect and set as my goal?

I have fast boot enabled. The sata drive is in AHCI mode. Hyper kit mode is disable and Hot Plug is disabled. Aggressive LPM Support is disabled.
 

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asus splash screen is off. legacy boot/cmos is also off. I turned on "no gui boot" but I still see the windows logo. I have no password so the windows logo and the username login take up 90% of the loading time.which is 56 seconds currently.
 

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did you time it? I just did a cold boot and it took 57 seconds after following every advice on this thread.
 
ok i just tried 3 times and have an average for you ~ understand my system is not yours, i have an older i5-4690k which is overclocked; i'm also using an Asus Maximums Gene VI. My boot drive is a samsung 850 evo.

from power on to post (ROG splash screen) - 7 seconds
from post to windows login screen - 22 seconds
from windows login screen to desktop - 2 seconds
from desktop to apps fully loaded - 13 seconds

total time for my system to FULLY boot & load all apps- 46 seconds
total "boot time" - 29 seconds

In comparison, my laptop which does the hibernate/power off trick, it takes
power on to post - 0 seconds
post to windows login screen - 6 seconds
windows login screen to desktop - 1 seconds
desktop to desktop fully loaded - 5 seconds

total time for my system to FULLY boot & load all apps- 12 seconds
total "boot time" - 6 seconds

In comparison to my i5 desktop my laptop is not as impressive, it sports a core m 5y10; and an intel ssd (haven't bothered to check the model number on the ssd)