Windows 10: Slow Startup and running of apps

FYI, my laptop is Asus, cpu is intel core i7-6500u.


I recently installed the KB4540673 update yesterday. My laptop was working fine for around 1 day but today, apps started crashing and it takes forever to open one.



So, I thought it is because of the update because it is the only thing that was different for my pc, I did not install or modify anything else.


However, after I uninstalled the update, things are still as bad and maybe even worse. For a start, everything still loads slowly. I restarted the pc again and I got an error message telling me they will find the error and restart the pc for me again.

After the restart, everything is stull terribly slow. What do I do in this situation? troubleshoot? It suddenly became super slow for no apparent reason after 1 day of working fine.



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Slow Startup

Does anybody know why I am having really slow system startups? I don't have extra startup programs than I use to have. The only thing that I think it could be is my antivirus program. I use AVG now since I reformated 2 days ago..and every since then, I have a really slow startup..I don't know if that is the reason..Does anybody have any suggestions, on how to speed my startup? I use to be able to be on my desktop screen in like 35-40 seconds at most. And now it is way over a minute. Any help would be gr8.

-slip*Cool

 

My pc takes for ever to shut down when i restart

Suggest cleaning up your startup list .There may be many services / Apps you can remove on startup which is not needed on boot or during shutdown.
Before you shutdown the Pc check what is running in Task Manager as a program or service in not killing the process on shutdown

Would suggest cleaning up running apps and services -Autoruns, StartupMonitor,HighjackThis,
Malware Scan - Malwarebytes,ADWcleaner, Combofix

 

Can't get GPU-Z to start with Windows 8.1 startup

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