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Windows 10 Taking almost "FOREVER" to startup - how to diagnose?
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Ihave been using Windows 10 a long while and recently "something" happened. It occurred after trying to install and uninstall AVIRA antivirus. Now, when starting Windows, the spinning dots appear for several hours before the system comes live to login. OK, maybe less time, but longer than I can sit and wait to see. I've waited patiently for nearly an hour with no login, but if I leave it doing it's spin all night, by morning, it's alive.
If I interrupt it with a Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get the login background, but no login dialog and have to reboot. If I wait out the spin, it seems to recover.... EVENTUALLY.
As it's spinning now (on another PC) I cannot post any event logs or anything. What would you like to see?
UPDATE:
- It took Windows 10 about 1/2 day to boot. (yep, days)
- The system event log buffer had completely filled, saving only the most recent hours of messages. The same message appears approximately 17 times per second (yep per second):The server App.AppXck5aaxyarfx8gxrgfk6pvakmmxeqvepc.mca did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.UPDATE:
Found some related articles upon searching for AppXck5aaxyarfx8gxrgfk6pvakmmxeqvepc
☐ ???? ????????? ?????????? Microsoft.Messaging - Windows 10 - CyberForum.ru in russian (sidebar: Google translate both amazing a amusing in part) This seems to suggest some kind of issue with the Windows licence checking
☑ System Event ID 10010 - Microsoft Community suggests Skype may be the issue. (sidebar: I love how many people find uninstalling/reinstalling Skype to be a solution for so many Windows problems.) I have uninstalled and will reinstall later.
☑ Found a post in this forum A couple of event queries which was unanswered and is now a few hundred days old.
☑ Found a post in a forum at DistributedCOM Fehler | PC-WELT Forum which suggested something is trying to phone home and failing. My guess would be that if true, it's the AVIRA anti-virus program I tried to install and uninstall just prior to this problem occuring.
☑ Found a post at https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport...ge_and_errors/ which suggests to check the disc integrity. I have an SSD and am not as familiar with bad sector remapping as I am with the old HD technology automatic remapping. So I am scheduling a check with repair if needed for reboot.
TO DO (reminders for me):
☐ Find a way to assure all the AVIRA components are removed from the PC.
☐ Reinstall Skype
☐ Try the recently installed Macrium to restore from last backup. Running a disc integrity check first.
Last edited by SOHO1; 22 Dec 2016 at 13:33.