Computer stuck on login screen for several minutes

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Computer stuck on login screen for several minutes

Jai Jamieson 0

About a month ago my computer randomly started taking 10+ Minutes to login, and since then my performance has been declining heavily

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Alvise Cervellati 6,120 Independent Advisor

Hi @Jai Jamieson , welcome in community

Open Event Viewer and filter the System log for Warning and Error events from sources like disk, storahci, or NTFS (specifically look for Event IDs 7, 11, 51, or 153). If you see bad blocks or controller resets, the drive is failing.

Then press WIN + X and open terminal as admin, now type

Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | Select-Object DeviceId, ReadErrorsUncorrected, Wear

Share here the result.

Last step, disconnect from the network completely (unplug Ethernet/disable Wi-Fi) and try logging in. If the login is suddenly fast, the system is hanging on a disconnected network drive, a failing DNS request, or an unreachable domain controller/startup script.

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Elvis

Jai Jamieson 0 Reputation points

2026-08-05T19:18:27.46+00:00

Hi this is the result i got
DeviceId ReadErrorsUncorrected Wear

0 0

1 0

Also im now sure it is something to do with the wifi, the login was quick but it wouldnt let me reconnect to the wifi for around 7 minutes, if i tried to open the network tab in my settings it closed the window
Alvise Cervellati 6,120 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-08-06T11:44:18.4866667+00:00

Ok, first step: reset completely the network

Press WIN + X and open terminal as admin, now type

netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled

netsh winsock reset

netsh int ip reset

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

ipconfig /flushdns

Restart the system and re-try

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