RedSector73 wrote:
if either found and fix integrity errors or corruptions, reboot and then repeat both steps again.
I'm running the system maintenance troubleshooter as we speak. I probably shouldn't be browsing and downloading torrents while it runs... but it's taking a long time, about 40 minutes deep in now. Never ran this tool before.
edit:
first, that was degrag, fooling me. the real troubleshooter took 2 seconds and was worthless as usual.
second, after performing some of the actions RedSector73 gracefully advised, I also redid a lot of power plan tweaks, mostly going more to the default, I usually kept either a ryzen balanced or windows high perf, every other week there comes someone saying that this one better over the other, and I'm a bit gullible like that and just follow the latest trend on that, (but both tweaked down to lesser min proc). Scannow found the triple instances culprit, and dism restored it, So that was nice, now I don't open triples of service diags anymore. It was very likely just a permissions thing. Moving user folders to the same old locations from previous installs tends to do stuff like that.
After that, I unplugged every single usb (including mouse and keyboard; and rca cable) from my computer and booted into windows. After I reapplied my old OC. And now I'm quite sure that there's some option in that OC that is either the main offender in all of this or at least a contributor (it's probably from MS seeing it was all fine just a couple days ago); seeing how the cold boot times that were seemingly resolved are trash once more. I revised csm, secure boot (to uefi -- I used to keep it at "other os"), fast boot too, which reminds I made sure to turn it off from windows itself (power options, i usually don't even see it because I was used to just run powercgf hibernate off). So that was my last 2 or 3 hours. And i'm actually one step behind my earlier post... Gonna give a spin on that driver thing now.
edit2:
that didn't work. Ran the sdi_snappy tool, there were 4 missing or worse drivers listed, amd sata/usb and asmedia usb x2(one of which was a downgrade, but rec'd), which then opened up another hub controller. So 5 missing drivers in total. Pretty cool, and it's portable. That's always a good sign. It's a keeper, thanks Red. Rebooted, rebooted, loaded optimized defaults, windows and rebooted, cleared cmos once again and it didn't fix the goddamned cold boot. restarted, rebooted. I was hoping that some stored value in there was acting up, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Whatever I did that fixed at least the system power on portion of it, became undone.
(isn't it a b&*** that in order to try to fix long loading times you kinda have to load a lot?)