Windows 10, services not starting/ timing out

[FoxEye]

The Computer Browser service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The Group Policy Client service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The Microsoft Account Sign-in Assistant service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The Network Setup Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

This is filling up the event log, adding multiple entries every minute.

In the real world, this manifests itself in the following ways:

# File Explorer takes up to 10 mins to launch
# Google Chrome takes up to 10 mins to launch (Firefox and IE not affected!)
# Shutdown and Restart commands may either take up to 10 mins to complete, or fail silently no matter how long you leave it.
# Any application which attempts to launch a File Open/File Save dialogue may take up to 10 mins to respond.
# Start menu may fail to respond/ open

This thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...y/8de05494-60a7-4679-9799-40e846677abf?page=3

did not contain any helpful answer from MS support (surprise, surprise), but at the end a user mentioned this may happen when you change the folder path for My Documents, My Pictures, or other "library" locations. I always do this because MyDocs is on my mechanical drive and Windows is on an SSD.

Has anyone had the same/ similar? I moved from Win7 to Win10 but I understand this kind of thing also affected some users on Win8.

 

[marc2003]

I'm only windows 8.1 but have always moved all docs/music/videos/pics/etc from vista onwards and have never had issues like that.

If you did an inplace upgrade from 7 to 10, it might be worth doing a clean install. Obviously it's an inconvenience but given the problems you're having, it still might be the easiest solution.

 

[FoxEye]

It's a clean install

 

[marc2003]

Is it a fresh install or had it been working for sometime and then gone wrong recently? Can you think of anything you've installed that might have caused this?

If this is really user folder related, you could try creating a brand new account and use that temporarily just to see what happens.

 

[FoxEye]

If this is really user folder related, you could try creating a brand new account and use that temporarily just to see what happens.

Good idea. Wasn't looking forward to another re-install

Is it a fresh install or had it been working for sometime and then gone wrong recently? Can you think of anything you've installed that might have caused this?

It's been like this since July. Firstly on an upgrade install from Win7, then on a clean install.

I've just put up with it, and only recently decided to start having a look at fixing it. I've found various workarounds that mitigate some of the inconvenience