Windows 10: First Win10 Startup Fails, Second Startup Succeeds

After the latest round of Windows 10 updates, my computer does not boot up when I press the computer's On button. Instead, a blue window appears without the dots moving in a circle.
So I press and hold the On button to take the computer down, then press it again to restart the computer. This time the computer starts normally. That is the only weirdness I have from the latest update.
Is there a setting I can change, or should I remove some of the latest updates?

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Startup fails in Windows 10

Original Title: Startup fails.

Ever since I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 my desktop PC always fails to startup the first time, but works after powering off and restarting. I only have three programs opening automatically at startup: Microsoft OneDrive, Weather Bug and Auto Sizer. I'd
be very grateful if someone could help me with a solution. Thank you.

 

How can I make a second boot (dual) boot on a separate internal drive?

I have Windows 10 installed on the main drive of my PC and would like to make my second drive to be also bootable (dual boot) just in case the first drive fails. How do I go about making/copying my Win10 boot details over to the second drive so that I am
given a choice of which drive to boot from on startup?

cheers

Mike

 

I hate saying this, but it might be time for a clean reinstall. (That, of course, is the default answer for any weird Win10 behavior.) My wife's laptop exhibited very similar behavior after the AU upgrade. That happened for the first 3 boots (or rather, pairs of boots). After that it pretty much cleared up ... except that switching users would make it happen again. The "switch" would result in a black screen with just a cursor. The cursor would move, but nothing else would happen. Following a forced power off, the next startup would hang - either on the lock screen or on the login screen. Another forced power off. The next startup would succeed and everything would work normally (except trying to switch users.) After a clean reinstall, all was well.

 

Yipes! I have a Windows 7 machine with a free Windows 10 upgrade. I've got no way to install a clean Win10.

 

There are lots of threads on this forum giving instructions and tips on how to do it. Many involve using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool (MCT) to create an installation package on a USB flash memory "drive". The process is fairly straightforward, but it will take an hour or two (followed by reinstalling any on-Windows software you've installed). During your original upgrade-in-place procedure to get to Win10 Microsoft saved your activation information so you won't need an activation key or anything like that - just an internet connection for (re-) activation. The whole process is a lengthy royal pain, but the upgrade-in-place process leaves junk around that can cause all sorts of problems for many users.

 

Yipes! I have a Windows 7 machine with a free Windows 10 upgrade. I've got no way to install a clean Win10.

It's actually VERY easy if your last Update was the the 1607 Anniv edition of Win10 and you have decent download speed. Verify that your device has digital entitlement. This means you don't need a key to re-install 10. Then go to the Recovery options and click at the bottom where it says "learn how to start fresh with a clean installation of Windows". The tool is very small and will download a clean copy of 10 and install it for you (about 1.5 hrs).







Full Brink tutorial here - Refresh Windows Tool - How to Use in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thank you, pokeefe0001 and mrgeek.

 

Yes, the previous posters are right on the money. I just reinstalled my Insider Preview Enterprise test machine last weekend because of the very same symptoms. After a clean reinstall, those problems vanished completely. For me, the biggest time sucker is not the OS (re)installation: it's getting all the applications and utilities back on board that take so much time. Let me recommend Ninite (free) as a great tool for grabbing and installing bunches of common, popular apps all in one go. I just used it again this weekend to handle 14 or 15 programs more or less automatically. Probably saved me an hour, at least!
--Ed--