The system is a Dell build that came with Windows 7 Pro. Windows 10 is the upgrade, again, from Window 7 Pro. No, I did not have similar problems. Boot time was only a minute or two at most from post...

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chksdsk has been run on all my disks, sfc and dism run again, and despite several Windows Updates since the last time I was in here, my issues persist. I would even...

Alrighty, I added the drive letter and started the process. SFC came back with the "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix.

I ran several flavors of Dism following...

I'm a bit hesitant here. Disk 0 actually has 3 partitions (see screenshot). The RECOVERY partition is one in place from Dell for going back to a default system state, but there's a second unassigned...

You think you all got it bad? I'm experiencing this too, but I kid you not when I say that I get the Windows logo and spinning icon before 45 MINUTES of black screen, on average. I don't see this on...

This same info is posted on Microsoft's own forums, but I imagine they are slammed with questions. If you wanna see that thread, it's here

Ultimately, I was having these problems with my laptop...