Slow Restart For Some Reason--Windows 10 Pro 1909

Hi, you can check your SSD with one of the disk check freeware progs of course.

Is fast startup disabled?

Try running
chkdsk c: /scan
from an admin command prompt (this checks only).

Could be a driver-related issue... How long does it take to boot from cold to the lock screen?

Very Fast from Cold boot, less than i say 8-10 if that seconds on Cold boot to lock screen. Will run chkdsk asap here, and maybe even run smart test with WD SSD Dashboard as well

Fast start disabled

overall though, the systems have pretty much same software load out, the most used systems do, Moms doesn't really have same software loadout as yet, that is only PC still using Avast Free at this point.

Anyhow will report back chkdsk results asap here, and guess go from there

Code:

PS C:\Windows\system32> chkdsk c: /scan
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  388352 file records processed.
File verification completed.
  6818 large file records processed.
  0 bad file records processed.
Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  37861 reparse records processed.
  516820 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
  37861 reparse records processed.
Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
  64235 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  35991952 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.
 243536895 KB total disk space.
 110864436 KB in 245827 files.
    179740 KB in 64236 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    501771 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 131990948 KB available on disk.
      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  60884223 total allocation units on disk.
  32997737 allocation units available on disk.

Another Restart also was much quicker, not sure why it hung up after getting Todays Windows Updates at all, but guess everything seems normal after all, and me paniced for nothing yet again

Think maybe solved, restarts seem to be back to normal speed now, not sure what the initial slowdown was though

Great- may have been proccessing an update? That's two reported problems today that 'just vanished'

You could check your Update History for e.g. driver updates - or could have been security software auto update.....etc etc..