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W10 pretty blue screen with circling dots on boot up/restart
Lenovo Y500 laptop takes hours to boot but then appears to run normally. It's been doing this for quite a while, I just haven't taken the time to try to track down the culprit.
This is my daughter's laptop. Came as a Win8 or Win8.1 laptop and took the free upgrade to W10 when it first became available. AFAIK, it ran normally for a long time. I learned about the lengthy boot issue long after it began so I have no idea what caused/es this lengthy boot.
It is repeatable. I have a pretty blue screen with the circling dots. Right now it's been going for about 90 minutes or so. I expect it will be operational within the next hour or so.
How would I go about tracking down the culprit? I'm tempted to wipe it and put Win 8.1 back on it, but I guess I would lose the free upgrade to Win 10 (if you can call it that).
I honestly much prefer Win 8.1 using Classic shell in place of the Metro interface. Regardless, W10 is the future going forward so I would like to fix this if I can. Any suggestions how to proceed?
Last edited by speedlever; 30 Sep 2016 at 08:20.