Windows 8 freezes at welcome screen

marck Senior Member Posts: 342	Windows 8 freezes at welcome screen Mar 30, 2013 1:15:19 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by marck on Mar 30, 2013 1:15:19 GMT -5 Win 8 freezes at welcome screen and I have to manualy shut it down and restart it.Tried googling for a fix but nothing. Can anyone help?

drmark
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Windows 8 freezes at welcome screen Mar 30, 2013 7:01:54 GMT -5

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Hi Marck and welcome!

This seems to be a fairly common problem with Windows 8 and may have something to do with a recent patch.

I would suggest trying the steps outlined here by Microsoft. Let us know if this helps.

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/windows-8-start-screen-and-apps-not-responding/3efd69c2-efad-4156-bc29-3b113d9219a7

DrMark

marck Senior Member Posts: 342	Windows 8 freezes at welcome screen Mar 30, 2013 10:05:51 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by marck on Mar 30, 2013 10:05:51 GMT -5 I should have told you this only happens on a cold boot.