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Startup issues, weird freezing
My problem is that whenever I startup windows for the day, the following scenario occurs:
1. On first boot, Windows gets stuck at the welcome screen, with the circle spinning
endlessly
2. I do a forced reboot, on boot I get the "windows wasn't shut down normally" (or whatever it says), and I choose "Start Windows normally".
3. This time I get past the welcome screen almost instantly, and the desktop, taskbar and start menu appears normally.
4. Now it freezes in a kind of weird way. I can open the start menu, use windows search, use explorer etc, but if I attempt to start any other application, like notepad or the task manager none of them will show up. The network icon in the lower right also spins endlessly, trying to find my wired connection.
5. Eventually, like 2-3 mins later the freeze ends, everything I've attempted to start during the freeze pops up at the same time, the network icon also stops spinning appearing to have finally found my wired connection.
I have no idea what might be causing this, but to me it seems like explorer.exe loads normally (since it handles the taskbar/start menu/folder viewer etc right?) but everything else freezes.
Also this problem started occurring very recently, a couple of days ago and I've used this Win7 installation without problems since win7 was released.