Windows 10 Stuck on "Welcome"

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Gillette

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After rebooting, or booting from a full shutdown, I will get to the login page, enter my credentials, and hit enter, only to be greeted with an endless loading screen on "Welcome".

The only way around this appears to be booting into Safe Mode, and then rebooting normally. Trying to do a startup repair just ends in srttrail.txt saying the operating system version is incompatible with startup repair.

Has anyone else encountered this? I'd like to avoid doing a full OS reinstall if at all possible, but it is starting to become a major nuisance... up until this point I have just been leaving my PC on for months at a time, but Windows 10 has a pesky habit of rebooting on its own for updates.
 
While you're in safe mode, fire up the credential manager and blow away all the saved credentials. There is a known issue with Win 10 credentials stored in the credential manager can delay the login. Last I looked, the microsoft fix was to removed any stored credentials... seemed to work on the few machines I've seen the issue on.
 
Demon10000 said:
While you're in safe mode, fire up the credential manager and blow away all the saved credentials. There is a known issue with Win 10 credentials stored in the credential manager can delay the login. Last I looked, the microsoft fix was to removed any stored credentials... seemed to work on the few machines I've seen the issue on.
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This seems to have done it! It was only saved system credentials too, nothing I had actually added.

Awesome catch, and great advice. Thank you!
 
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