Geh, figures, turns out one of the USB cables was bad, or something along those lines. Switched it out and things are much better!

I'm not entirely sure why I didn't think to try that first. Oh...

Subject says it all.


Context: I have an Oculus Rift, and the sound used to pop in and out. Now, when I say "pop", I do not mean mute and unmute! Rather, it switches between 3D audio that rotates...

Oh my gosh.

...I'm sorry. x.x' -- Seriously though, changing it in the GUI did bring about /a/ change, so I thought doing it via the command prormpt would just be redundant and suck another eight...

I start up in two and a half seconds now. I'm fine with this. I can install sixty billion toolbars in Internet Explorer and be okay. (Nobody do this. Toolbars are bad.) o____o...

Anyway, all...

Double-post, sorry, I can't edit my old post: I just solved my issue, which is very similar to yours. Does this do it for you too?

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OKAY DOUBLEPOST BUT...

Sorry about the slow reply, things got busy today!

smss.exe is in system32, and Virustotal reports that it's all good. Huzzah!

Attached is the dump you requested from the tool you provided in...

I'll ask the obvious question: Did this start happening right after installing 1709? I might be having the same issue over at Exceptionally long boot times (8+ minutes) after installing Fall CU. -...

Errrr... Well. Okay. Yeah. The traces are about 1.4 gigs each. They compress very well with 7-zip and come down to about 100 megs each, but they're still too big to upload to the forum here directly....

Maybe this is my mistake, but the tool you linked me to errors out. 0x80071069. There was more text, but I was dead tired and didn't think to write it down. Hopefully the error code is sufficient!...

I installed it today, less than 24 hours ago. I have a full disk image with my previous install on it (though it's dated) and Backblaze's last backup was recent for the stuff that wasn't included in...

'Tis okay! I'm already super-duper thankful that you're not giving me advice like "Did you try rebooting it?" or "Did you try disabling your AV?" and other stuff like that! (I've been on way too many...

As I stated in my first post, toggling the Fast Startup option in the GUI does have an affect; disabling it causes the system to take over eight minutes to boot, enabling it makes it take 10-15...

Thank you for the welcome!

I did mean to say Fast Startup throughout that post, my mistake.

Hello'n'stuff! I've installed the Fall Creator's Update today! Yaaaay!.. ... Okay, no. It's a service pack that I forgot to defer for at least six months, so of course something goes wrong on at...