Windows 10: Windows 10 long delay on startup.

When I am restarting my computer, it boots up very fast but on the login screen, after I type my pin, I am stuck in Welcome screen no cursor for many minutes. The computer eventually boots up...


When I press shutdown and I turn my computer on, then before the login screen and after the windows logo I get a black screen no cursor for the same amount of time as the welcome loop when I restart, and then when the black screen goes away, the login screen appears and I type my pin and I see my desktop instantly.


So the OS eventually boots up everytime, but it takes many minutes because it gets stuck somewhere, and it gets stuck on a different point depending on if I press "Restart" or "Shutdown" and boot up manually. This is unacceptable if you take into consideration that I am using only M.2 SSD drives, CPU Intel i9 9900K, GPU Nvidia RTX 2070, I have the latest 1903 windows updates and I have the latest GPU drivers.


I have tried many things and nothing! I tried safe boot, clean boot, uninstall recent cumulative updates, disconnecting all usb, switching monitors, rolling back to a previous gpu driver, updating all drivers, disconnecting to the internet and rebooting, disconnecting everything except my C drive, disconnecting monitors, chkdsk /f /r, sfc /scannow, malware scan, full windows defender scan, disabling windows defender, disabling fast boot..... Nothing worked.

I also tried booting to two other SSD drives Windows 10 and they booted fine without any issues. So this is not hardware issue.


winver output:

Version 1903 OS Build 18362.778


The following might not be useful but this is what I was doing just before I realised the problem:

• I updated my nvidia studio drivers on my geforce experience program, I do these updates often with no issues.
• I let my pc do 2 cumulative updates that were available.
• I tried installing fastboot - flashmode drivers for a Sony Xperia phone and they failed because I needed to enable the "Disable Signature Verification" option on startup settings. That is what I was trying to do and I figured out the issue. I got the first blackscreen when I enabled this feature. I have enabled it many times in the past with no issues at all, and I know what I am doing. I did uninstall the Xperia drivers to see if it helped but nothing!

Please help me solve this. Is there any way I can generate a log file of the bootup events so that we can figure out what is causing all this???

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Try turning Aero off; or, maybe these links, below:

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Just throwing sh*t onto the fire, now.

 

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