Windows 10: Freezing during boot + will not shut down. What is wrong?

Discus and support Freezing during boot + will not shut down. What is wrong? in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; My free upgrade from 7 pro worked well for one month, but has become increasingly unstable. Firstly the boot up screen before sign-in virtually freezes... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by weary, Sep 10, 2016.

  1. weary Win User

    Freezing during boot + will not shut down. What is wrong?


    My free upgrade from 7 pro worked well for one month, but has become increasingly unstable. Firstly the boot up screen before sign-in virtually freezes - the circulating dots stutter and almost stop - I do not know if it eventually boots because I press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then it seems to re-boot semi-successfully (what am I doing when I press Ctrl-Alt-Delete - I have no idea, it was an experiment?). The system then takes about 20 minutes to become truly stable. During that 20 minutes most operations, but particularly browsing and application start-ups are erratic. Finally, I cannot power down through Windows; I have to use the Power button to turn the PC off. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    I have a Dell Studio XPS i7 Q820 @ 1.73Ghz, 8GB ram, 250GB SSD.

    :)
     
    weary, Sep 10, 2016
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  2. KennyBarr Win User

    MICROSOFT EDGE WILL NOT SHUT DOWN

    EDGE FREEZES I TRY TO SHUT it DOWN BUT IT WILL NOT I have to restart my computer to get gone how do I fix this please
     
    KennyBarr, Sep 10, 2016
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  3. PC does not shut down requires forece shut down

    Hi

    I thought that the Microsoft Update for last Tuesday had cleared the problem as after booting up on Wednesday morning (when the updates completed the installation process) I shut the PC down on Wednesday evening and it did not try to restart before I wanted
    to. On Thursday morning when I did press the power button it went through the boot up process as it was supposed to right to the sign in screen and worked OK in that session.

    However when I closed the PC down Thursday it shut down as normal but during the early hours (I believe between 02.00 and 03.00 GMT) the PC tried to boot up again and froze as previously before the sign in screen. Again holding the power button in until
    it shuts down completely and then restarting allows the normal boot up procedure to take place.

    The only other thing that was different at the time the update was loaded was that I have a couple of USB drives permanently connected as I use files from these on a regular basis and only disconnect when I take them to use on a laptop. I am not sure that
    their presence is connected as until the PC switches on they have not power.

    So I am still at Square 1.

    Regards
     
    Smudge'sDad, Sep 10, 2016
    #3
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