Windows booting odd

[thegkevin]

Hello, so I have had this weird problem where I boot my computer, (this only happens at random) but I boot, windows launches pretty quick, but I dont see the bios screen (which i usually do when i boot) and i see that my windows profile pictute is blank. When I get in, I cannot open file explorer at all or if I do it'll take any time to open and it wont show me all my documents, i cant access my HDD or SSD or anything its literally just a blank, very slow booting, flie explorer. I also cant open anything on the task bar like notifications, start button wont even bring up the start apps, but I can use my computer, like google, be in a meeting, watch videos, what not. Its just kind of frustrating because I think I am able to go play a game but It wont let me because obviously i cant acess any folders, causing me to restart the computer, most likely booting it correctly. I've seen like a weird hdd or something that says boot manager? is that my issue? do i delete it? what should i even do, i am currently in class and its on this weird boot that i cant open file explorer or just yes that problem. Its really weird, I dont know whats causing it.

 

I took a screenshot of what my file explorer looks like, and i cant even open the screenshots folder, in order to do so i must restart the pc and share it afterwards.

[AndreiArgeanu]

If you don't see the bios screen chances are your computer is waking up from a idle/sleep state perhaps because the PC did not shutdown properly for some reason. And chances are, if you do a fresh install of Windows the issue will disappear.

[thegkevin]

6 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

If you don't see the bios screen chances are your computer is waking up from a idle/sleep state perhaps because the PC did not shutdown properly for some reason. And chances are, if you do a fresh install of Windows the issue will disappear.

when i shut down my computer, i simply just hold the power button for about 1-5 seconds... should i not being doing this? or should i just press start, power, shut down instead?

there is no way in hell i am doing a fresh install of windows again. I did it for my SSD about a couple weeks ago and went through hell if you see my past problems.

[AndreiArgeanu]

11 minutes ago, thegkevin said:

when i shut down my computer, i simply just hold the power button for about 1-5 seconds... should i not being doing this? or should i just press start, power, shut down instead?

You should definitely not do that, you are basically hard resetting windows and don't give it time to properly shut down, Windows could be working in the background on some critical task, like working on a update which works with resources critical to Windows functioning properly. Additionally you may not actually be holding the power button long enough. If you just hold it for 1-2 seconds it's likely that it will just enter sleep mode. nvm it will shutdown, though it depends on how windows is configured to behave when pressing the power button

[thegkevin]

1 hour ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

You should definitely not do that, you are basically hard resetting windows and don't give it time to properly shut down, Windows could be working in the background on some critical task, like working on a update which works with resources critical to Windows functioning properly. Additionally you may not actually be holding the power button long enough. If you just hold it for 1-2 seconds it's likely that it will just enter sleep mode. nvm it will shutdown, though it depends on how windows is configured to behave when pressing the power button

thanks for the response, ill start to just shutdown through start just in case.