Windows 10: Fixing C: takes more than 6 hours

My Acer laptop crashed because Media Player is not responding. I decided to run Disk Check to fix corrupted files. And when my laptop restarted, the ETA shows 6 hours 43 minutes. Any fixes?

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Microsoft Edge TLS Security

After trying everything (not a lot of steps) listed in the Microsoft Edge support site, I did a wider search and found this very simple youtube video that fixed it immediately:

For those who prefer not to click links the steps are simple:

1. Click in the Cortana search bar next to the Win 10 Start button

2. Type internet options

3. Select internet options (control panel) from the list

4. Click on the advanced tab

5. Scroll down to the security section

6. Make sure the following are all clicked:
Use SSL 3.0
Use TLS 1.0
Use TLS 1.1
Use TLS 1.2

7. Click apply

8. Refresh the page that was giving the error and it should now connect.

Hope this helps, it was a 30 second fix after hours of pounding my head against the error with the Support site suggestions.

 

Windows 10 taskbar not working

OK, I am certain that this seems like some sort of hack, but after hours of searching I found this thread [SOLVED] Cortana -- Search Box Problem which pointed me an app called "Tweaking.com - Windows Repair." This app was completely able to fix all of my modernUI applications right between step 5 and 6 of their list of repairs.

Although I'm hard pressed to suggest a solution that links off to an unknown application...whatever this Tweaking.com app is doing during step 5 or 6 has absolutely fixed my Windows 10 instance.

All other fixes, as mentioned by the author, failed for me.

 

Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.