Why Does Windows 10 Take So Long to Restart?
Contents the Reason Why the Restart Is Taking Forever to Complete Might Be an Unresponsive Process Running in the Background. for Example, the Windows System...
The reason why the restart is taking forever to complete might be an unresponsive process running in the background. For example, the Windows system is trying to apply a new update but something stops from working properly during the restart operation. … Press Windows+R to open Run.
How long should Windows 10 take to restart?
It could take as long as 20 minutes, and your system will probably restart several times.
What to do when Windows restart takes too long?
Let us try few steps.
- Step 1: Run DISM & SFC scan. We would also suggest you to run the DISM & SFC Scan tool to check if there is any windows file corruption causing this issue, refer this article: System File Checker.
- Step 2: Check in Clean boot status. Try booting your PC in clean boot. …
- Step 3: Disable Fast Startup.
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