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Windows 10 extremely slow on startup
I have a 256 gig SSD with 88 gig free (not part of the profile).
I upgraded to Windows 10 two weeks ago. Everything seemed fine until Monday morning when it went into repair mode on startup. I had to reinstall from the media DVD.
Afterward, when it started, it was so slow as to be unusable. I noticed almost constant disk activity (from the light on the case). Did a normal shutdown.
Tuesday after startup the same thing happened. But about two hours later it was working normally. The Windows Update screen doesn't display, it just shows dots moving across it.
Yesterday, same thing. My wife did a hard shutdown from the case. When I started it later after work same slowness, only now the start menu refuses to launch. Task manager shows a huge amount of reads/writes from various processes, Windows mostly but also others, including Windows Defender ( I have Norton 360 so I don't need Windows Defender but didn't think to disable it).
Can someone please help?
Thank you.