Thank you so much for your explanation!

It actually works ok with the microsoft wireless display adapter so I think I'll just use that.

Hi! I'm a teacher and have to teach from home this week. I have a new Samsung TV, and when I connect the laptop to it with an hdmi cable everything is fine. However I want to extend my screen to the...

30 seconds is normal with an SSD? I thought it was supposed to be like, 5 lol. I could be completely wrong though, so let me know if that's normal for SSD.

I did the boot trace. It took forever...

Ok I did all those things. First, I cleared over 140 gb of temp files....phew. That got it down to 40 seconds. After I did the other things it's down to 26.

Any other ideas to get it to what it...

Will do, thank you! I'll report back!

I've already disabled every single thing in startup. But I will do the other things you suggested and let you know how it goes!

Did not help :( Still 1 min 15 secs

Hi! I have a 2 TB Samsung SSD, and honestly I don't remember if it was like this since the beginning (I've always had an SSD, upgraded as soon as I got my laptop)... but at least in recent history...

Whenever I had indexing turned on, nothing was ever found at all. Even though I would update the folders consistently. I will try your methods. Thank you!

Windows 10 Version: 20H2 (OS Build 19042,1052)

I've always had problem with searching files. If I "search this PC" and type in a folder or file name, nothing ever comes up. It just says "working...