Windows 10: 30 Minute boot time after a brownout.

Recently had a brownout pretty common where I live this time of year and after rebooting my PC it took approximately 30 minutes to load into the UI. Once in the UI absolutely nothing worked for another half hour, setting, cmd, disk cleanup even my 3rd party apps like discord. I think it's corrupted to all hell but sfc scannow isn't seeing any corrupt files and I can't reset my PC as it was stuck at restarting please wait for almost 5 hours. I know it can take a hot moment as I've had to reset a few PCs but not that long. Even trying through my win11 USB and reinstalling there has yet to work

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Windows 7 taking 30 to boot

Tried all suggested.

No difference, still taking 30 minutes to boot.

 

Windows taking 30-50 minutes to boot to LogIn screen

Hi,

I've followed the Clean Boot instructions and the computer is now booting up again. It's already clear that's made no difference, I'm waiting on the login screen coming up just like before...

Thanks for the suggestions, it's good to work through everything, even if it does take 30 minutes wait after each attempt! I'm determined to work out what is causing this.

Thanks,

Stephen.

 

Windows taking 30-50 minutes to boot to LogIn screen

Hi,

We've now had a three laptops (HP but completely different models) go from working completely normally to having major problems with no obvious root cause.

The latest laptop to have this happened this morning and I see no Windows Updates or HP Updates for yesterday or the previous few days.

The laptops take 30 to 50 minutes to load the login screen from power on. Once logged in numerous services are not running, including not being able to view wifi networks. These services will happily start if clicked to start from Services in Control Panel.
Event Log shows multiple services failing to start during the long boot up.

After manually starting these failed automatic start services the computer for the most part seems to be working, apart from being completely unable to type anything into the Cortana search bar. There may be other issues that I've not yet come across, but
certainly nothing obvious. The same problems happens every time it is booted up now.

I've tried running DISM.exe and SFC.exe. SFC reported issues and that they were repaired. I've also switched off fast booting. The boot time has reduced by 20 minutes, but it still takes 30 minutes and the services not running and Cortana search problems
remain.

I found the following thread on another website which describes the exact same issue. Nobody seems to have an answer there.

Question - Windows 10 Long Boot Time (20 minutes) Black Screen With Spinning Circle

I do not believe it is a hardware issue, as when we've run the hardware scan in the past it passes all the tests. HP are not interested in assisting when there is no hardware fault.

Any ideas of

• why this is happening?
• how to resolve it without a full reset on Windows (which going by the thread on TomsHardware doesn't permanently fix it anyway)?

Thanks!

Stephen.