Why did it take such a long time for windows to boot up back in the day compared to today’s operating systems?

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I understand that processing power was lacking but surely the os of yore must have had much smaller requirements. Also let’s assume we are booting up offline and no updates are indicated. What was Windows doing for 3 – 5 minutes that my android phone manages to zip through in 15 seconds?

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To be fair. My new Win 11 install starts slower then when it was Win 10

7 through 10 were all pretty snappy.
XP did take its time.
Everything before that naturally was on much slower hardware.

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