[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I switched from 7 to 10. Honestly, I haven't noticed much of a difference, except for one thing -- sometimes when I type in my password to log-on and hit enter, the little circle spins, and spins, and spins...And doesn't log on. I've tried leaving it for an hour, nothing. The only thing to do is hard shutdown and reboot. It's not earth-shattering, but it's a pain and frankly unacceptable.

I've read that it's caused by some sort of hangup in the shell.

[catnipman]

“Honestly, I haven’t noticed much of a difference, except for one thing — sometimes when I type in my password to log-on and hit enter, the little circle spins, and spins, and spins...And doesn’t log on. I’ve tried leaving it for an hour, nothing. The only thing to do is hard shutdown and reboot. It’s not earth-shattering, but it’s a pain and frankly unacceptable”

This would be COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for a PC that a business depended upon to stay in business, say, like a point of sale system, factory process control, or in a hospital.

[dhs12345]

That doesn’t sound good. Windows doesn’t handle forced hard reboots very well. Wonder what is causing it. Have you researched it on the internet? Also seems to be an issue with windows account information and credentialing. Or maybe it gets lost in the weeds before it gets to that point?

[dhs12345]

Might you have an queued up update that didn’t complete? Can you check this?

[angryoldfatman]

The boot up problem may be related to the Microsoft online account thing or lack thereof.

I know that when I changed over from 7 to 10 my login password changed from one on the computer itself to the Microsoft account one.