Bad windows update?

[BUDFORCE]

Pc did a windows update today, I wasn't particularly paying attention but seemed to take longer than normal.

This may also be a red herring.

Anyway, when I boot or restart the PC, it's like window takes aaaaages, several minutes, to work properly.

So it'll boot the desktop, desktop items are visible, if I move the mouse to the taskbar I just get spinning circle and can't click anything, none of my taskbar icons appear.

I've I try to open an image file I have on the desktop it gives me some message about the app not being installed, same if I right click and try and go to the personalise menu etc.

This state of unresponsiveness last a good few minutes, until it just decides then to fully boot and after that everything works perfectly.

I have never experienced anything like this in many years of experience with PCs, any ideas?

I can only think it has something to do with the update?

 

[Philtor]

Sounds like the update has borked something. You can roll it back and see if that fixes the issue? It would appear M$ just use the end user as beta testers these days this has been going on for years now.

 

[Rroff]

Take a look in Event Viewer see if there are any signs of a failing disc, etc.

But I'll put it down to the inept stupidity of Windows developers these days.

EDIT: Actually noticed it took quite awhile for the desktop on my laptop to stabilise after the latest updates on 11 but put that down to just applying updates and restarted back to the normal Windows 10 install I use on there (dual booting 10 and 11).

 

[mrk]

What Windows is it, 11? I think 10 has this too but on 11's task manager under startup tab, you get a breakdown of boot time and what startup items take the longest to load:



Also open a command prompt windows and sfc /scannow to check and repair for errors.

Also with a drive utility like CrystalDiskInfo you should check the SMART attributes of your OS drive incase there are any bad sectors etc. If you're on an SSD and don't have over-provisioning space set aside (empt drive space that is not allocated to anything, not even a partition), then the drive's internal sector sector replacement methods don't have anything to utilise in the event of bad sectors that need to be flagged off and OP space take their place. OP size should be 10% of the total formatted drive capacity.