Have another issue with my laptop :/

This only started yesterday. It has happened like 2 times now. When I turn on the PC after it's been turned off over night windows won't load properly. It loads into windows like normal but no startup programs launch and I can't start any programs either, I can move the mouse around click on programs but nothing happens.

I have to restart the PC by holding down the power button, cause the restart/shutdown from the star menu doesn't respond. After turning off the PC 2-3 (maybe more) times windows finally starts working properly. I also load bios defaults when I restart it (In the hope it does something), but not even that seems to fix it. After it starts up properly once, it seems to work fine for the rest of the day.

Tried to select the windows repair but it says it can't fix anything, or perhaps there is nothing to fix. This only started happening after I installed Throttlestop so not sure if anything I've changed there has affected something. I haven't overclocked the PC other than setting all cores to 42x.

P775DM3, 6700k, 16Gb Ram, GTX 1070, 512 SSD and 1Tb SSD.

 

Delete the throttlestop.ini and see if that changes anything. Otherwise you could always do a system restore to an ealier point in time.

 

Also, make sure you do not have Fast Startup enabled in Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced

Fast Startup has a lot of issues and when you shutdown, it's not a full shutdown, it's a hybrid shutdown + hibernation state which causes issues if the system was not properly shut down or did not properly save the current state.

 

If the above suggestions don't work, you can try running a command line to check the Windows file system integrity and repair issues with it (if any). Open an elevated command prompt and type: sfc /scannow

Let us know if any of this helps.

 

Well the laptop worked fine this morning (I'm from Europe, so that's when my mornings are). The thing is I didn't really change anything. I had already turned off hibernate, so as far as I understand that means fast startup is off as well. Sfc /scannow found nothing.

Only thing I did was not switch profiles in Throttlestop and make sure the PC was completely shut down before I closed the lid (which probably doesn't affect anything).

 

We have mornings in the morning too.

Interesting. Well, it could be "resolved," or it could be intermittent. Update your software and see whether anything in your startup looks suspicious; perhaps an application or service at boot is causing this issue, or maybe the Windows Explorer is failing to properly load at startup.

 

Only changing throttlestop profiles actually can represent a rather lengthy list of firmware settings being changed.