I have run out of ideas as to why, it just does, even though I have an SSD

And don't bother giving advice, I've already tried everything

Something is probably fried

Oh right he did make it to a 4th term

But barely

have you tried booting something that isn't your usual OS?

No because windows is the only useful OS for gaming and there would be no point

Love it when program updates force a restart without warning

Hmm

Definitely doesn't make me want to immediately uninstall your product and mail a bomb to the dev team

I assume you've looked at startup programs

How could it be startup programs before windows starts?

I'm stuck in the circle loading screen for eternity every time

Oh, before it books into windows

So it's hanging on the BIOS?

Not the BIOS

So it goes into Windows, but not into user accounts

Alright, that does eliminate startup programs

It eventually does it just takes fucking ages

It's probably just windows building up lots of junk files

I don't have the patience for a full reinstall though far too much to reinstall

And I'd lose lots of things I will inevitably forget about entirely

This didn't happen after an update, did it?

No it's acted like this ever since I installed windows

It's probably a bad driver

Odd

It amuses me to no end how I have less hassle with fucking Linux

Still loading

Does it eventially get there tho?

I have yet to use a Linux distro I considered remotely useful

Simply put, nothing worked

T R I G G E R E D

I had that issue before after an update. I had to start in safe mode and attempt various drivers. But when that didnt work. I had to reinstall windows via the safe screen

What makes stuff like that so annoying is that it seems that there are a billion and one things that can cause it and Windows gives you no fucking feedback

When it happened to mine the web basically said 4 to 5 drivers and the update possibly clash. Full reinstall cleared that.

I attempted the drivers first naturally. But no avail so doubt that was the actual issue

I've been doing some googling in the past 5 minutes and I have found multiple potential causes. USB devices, Windows updates, drivers

Want to install drivers? Problem. Want to install programs? Problem. Want to change system settings? Problem. You spend 95% of your time copy pasting commands off of ubuntu forums because literally nothing works without a hitch, there is inevitably a missing something or other or you got version 192.2853.3535 and you need 192.2853.3536, shit like that

It doesn't just work

Whenever you're troubleshooting Windows you're always stumbling around in the dark