Freezing/stuck after dual booting in windows 10

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I have this freezing issue in grub that takes a lot of time to load the Zorin environment and when it's loaded, it freeze's or stuck when clicking apps or the file manager, and if it's totally freeze, I press the power button and restart it once again and at that point, the grub and the Zorin DE got back to its normal flow.

I noticed this issue, after using windows 10 and restarting the laptop to dual-boot in Zorin.

These are some of things that I have done in my linux system and I don't know if these contributes to the problem.

  • I manually partition the root directory with 30gb in SSD and 200gb in HDD for the home directory. I also added an 8gb swap file size.

  • I also have installed Xubuntu on my system, but it doesn't face the same issue like Zorin. Unlike Zorin, I partition the Xubuntu's root and home with 50gb in HDD only.

  • The 8gb swap file is shared with Zorin and Xubuntu

This is my current system configuration

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Also, I'm still new at linux system. I tried Zorin OS core but it's kind a slow in my laptop's capability, so I choose the lite version instead. I also, spend some time searching and watching videos in YouTube to solve or just to minimize the issue but no luck at this moment.

Thanks for the help Zorin community!

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Do you have Secure Boot enabled in your BIOS / EFI settings?

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Hello, Yes I disable it lately after I check my UEFI settings. The booting up and accessing files in the DE are better by the way. Do I also need to disable fast boot? or it is only necessary when installing a new OS?

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Yes, definitely keep Fast Boot or Fast Startup in Windows Disabled.
It locks the hard drive, preventing access.

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Alright, I disable both of them and it's better now. Although, sometimes it feels slow at first when opening multiple software/applications. I noticed I installed tlp for saving battery power and one last question. Does disabling tlp or any batter power saving tool can improve my laptop's performance?

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Yes, disabling certain Power saving features can improve performance. I would keep TLP, though.
One additional thing I do is install Preload

sudo apt install preload

That is all there is to it. It needs no other configuration. It does, however, take a little time to begin to notice its effects.

There is this for CPU performance:

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Alright, I marked check/accepted your solutions. Thank you so much!

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