Windows 10: windows never fully loads. cannot access my PC!

I have a huge problem! start-up takes forever and windows never finishes loading after logging in to my account. files on my desktop are there, but there's nothing on my taskbar & I cannot open anything. [1st pic says that windows isn't responsive and whether I would like to wait or close the process.]https://imgur.com/a/JK4jkWD I don't have much disk space, don't know if it's relevant. All help is greatly appreciated. SPECS: GPU: *sapphire amd r9 380 MBoard: *gigabyte ga h170 hd3 CPU: *i5-6500 CPUcooler: *cooler master 212EVO Power Supply: *be quiet! pure power L8 500W Mem

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Bull fucking shit.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.