OK, understood.
But you're sure that I can safely delete the top (first) one ? Because it is marked as "Recovery" by the 3rd party software (AMOEI) while the other one (bottom/last) is not ?

I...

OK, so there can be multiple reasons why this occurred. I assume I indeed used an older Win10 installation media and then had it update itself to the latest.

Now as far as getting everything nice...

Hello,

Just a question: I had installed a new NVME SSD in my machine, starting from scratch. Created a USB thumb drive with Win10 installation media on it.
Now that everything has completed...

Dropbox - PREDATOR.09-18-2018.18-31-06.Boot_1.etl

Is it normal that it's a 1GB file ?

I already did.

I will. I'll get back once I've uploaded it.

No, in fact I'm on a blazing fast HyperX Predator M.2 SSD.
It really is a case of suuuuperfast boot (like it should be), then staring at the desktop with the taskbar for like a minute, and then...

*Sigh*

Didn't change a thing, didn't even touch the machine and the delay is there again...
So back to square one ...

It's already solved. All third party services are enabled again and there is no more slow down

Thank you for your aid everyone. It's solved. I ran a boot trace first with the WPR but didn't understand the outcome. So I decided the less productive option of simply starting to disable services...

Many thanks for all the suggestions. I'll get back with results, good or bad !

Hi there,

I initially posted this on the EightForums as this is on a Win8 machine, but got no response because there is little activity there. That should not be an issue though as this is...

Hehe :)

Well actually I already knew that rebuilding the cache didn't help because I am fairly knowledgeable around basic Windows stuff and thus always check the most common ones :)
Nevertheless...

Never mind, I've found it. The issue is with 3rd party software from Stardock; Start10. It creates low res icons instead of hi res. Creating Icons from the original Windows Start Menu solves it.

Thank you but rebuilding the cache did not solve it.

:( ?

So I'm having this strange problem for a while now, so can't say when it started really. This is on one of my daughter's computer. She has a mix of app icons and program icons on her desktop, but for...

Many thanks ! I indeed had some problems in searching for the correct terminology to locate the solution, hence this forum post. So kudos for helping me out in that regard. Applied the solution from...

Hi there reader/expert,

More a question than an actual problem. I have a dual boot system with both 8.1x64 and 10x64 on my 240GB SSD and I always used to have a nice boot selection screen in blue,...