Hi. I´m using Veracrypt on Windows 10 and works very well.
Yesterday I made a clean install of Windows 11 on my new Dell Inspiron. Boot takes about 10 seconds. Installed Veracrypt latest version and encrypted just a second SSD for Documents. OK. worked fine. Then, I mounted this second SSD and changed the location of Documents, pictures, videos, music and downloads from C: to this encrypted SSD. Also working fine.
But when I restart or just start this laptop, the boot time took about 3 minutes. So, I moved the folders Documents, pictures, videos, music and downloads back to the default location and the boot time was back to 10 seconds.
On a Desktop with Windows 10, I also moved the location of the folders to an encrypted drive and have no issues concerning with the boot time. Old Desktops boot in about 30 seconds.
So, how can I fix this issue under Windows 11?
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The only thing, I could think of: make sure that the VeraCrypt volume is mounted on system start. But to make it more reliable, you maybe should only set a symlink from inside the original Documents folder to a subfolder within the encrypted volume.
Greets
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Hi. I´m using Veracrypt on Windows 10 and works very well.
Yesterday I made a clean install of Windows 11 on my new Dell Inspiron. Boot takes about 10 seconds. Installed Veracrypt latest version and encrypted just a second SSD for Documents. OK. worked fine. Then, I mounted this second SSD and changed the location of Documents, pictures, videos, music and downloads from C: to this encrypted SSD. Also working fine.
But when I restart or just start this laptop, the boot time took about 3 minutes. So, I moved the folders Documents, pictures, videos, music and downloads back to the default location and the boot time was back to 10 seconds.
On a Desktop with Windows 10, I also moved the location of the folders to an encrypted drive and have no issues concerning with the boot time. Old Desktops boot in about 30 seconds.
So, how can I fix this issue under Windows 11?
The only thing, I could think of: make sure that the VeraCrypt volume is mounted on system start. But to make it more reliable, you maybe should only set a symlink from inside the original Documents folder to a subfolder within the encrypted volume.
Greets
Thanks for your reply. And how do I set a symlink?
Read up on this, to get an idea about the concept of links:
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/