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Icon corruption, 52 minute boot time, taskbar issues. I'm a mess.
This same info is posted on Microsoft's own forums, but I imagine they are slammed with questions. If you wanna see that thread, it's here
Ultimately, I was having these problems with my laptop but were solved when I fully formatted and reinstalled fresh from the mfg default. That said, my desktop seems to have contracted similar issues in the past week:
- Intermittently, I'm unable to click the Start Menu button or the Notification icon in the taskbar.
- Despite having the taskbar set to autohide, it remains on the screen, even when no icon is calling attention and the cursor has been clicked elsewhere.
- The Microsoft Store icon in the taskbar is corrupted.
Unpinning and repinning to the taskbar has no effect.- Generally speaking, Windows performance seems to be great, however, boot times are upwards of 30+ minutes of black screen before prompting for my pin. Checking the event viewer to confirm/diagnose boot time results in no matching Event IDs (100), so I'm unable to determine what might be causing the extreme delay.
A quick look using net statistics workstation and systeminfo reveals a 52 minute boot time. That's plain unacceptable.
I've tried multiple times to use sfc and dism to solve these issues, based on other forum post suggestions, but I get messages telling me that files could not be repaired, or that a repair is pending and another restart is required (which also does not solve any problems). Reformatting this machine is something I want to avoid at all costs. I'm happy to output any diagnostic screens, screenshots, or logs if it will help in resolving these issues.
For example, here is the latest sfc scannow result output from the CBS.log: sfc /scannow log