Windows 10: Newly-built desktop hangs on the initial "Restarting" Windows screen for a minute whenever...

The actual boot time for the system is shorter than the time is takes for the "Restarting" screen to go away. This is rather frustrating because my other Windows devices don't hang on this screen at all. Shutting the computer down and powering it on is actually faster than doing a normal restart. I could be wrong, but it seems as though this could be caused by some background process taking a while to close whenever the system tries to restart, though I'm not sure how to identify it. I've tried closing all of the programs running in the system tray before restarting but this did not change the problem.

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Initial Boot Hangs after BIOS Splash Screen - but restart always works

When I turn on my PC lately the old white splash screen comes up instead of the black, after a minute the screen becomes black. When I shut down and turn on again the black splash screen comes up, then it restarts and windows is started (pushing the reset button put me back to hanged post). I removed the CMOS battery and put it back again but same results.
How can I fix it?

 

HD 2600XT Hangs and Crashes

I can probably play cod4 or any other game really for about 45-60 minutes before my system hangs and my card crashes and my screen goes blank, i know its only my card because my system doesnt restart, my card fan stops running on full from its riva override, and soon thereafter my screen comes back on in 800x600 and i cant access the card's drivers to change the res or anything, so when it hangs and crashes i just resort to manually restarting.

one thing i think i could try is to bite the bit and install the latest drivers, i've been holding off on that.

but if there's anything else anyone can think of, or if someone has had the same problem as me. go for it and give me some suggestions.

in before buy the 4870. (already on my wish list)

 

Windows Update suddenly hangs?

Windows Update is suddenly hanging for some reason... I went and downloaded and installed the first bunch of updates, restarted when asked, and now when I go back to windows update I just get the window with a white box forever. Reboot and it still does it. This happens to be on my main machine, running windows 7.

I've also noticed when I reboot it says configuring windows update, step 3 of 3, 47%. Maybe it somehow skipped something and is screwed forever?