Windows fails to load

[jbegg3]

My laptop will sometimes fail to boot up. After several attempts at turning if off and then on again, I am shown a blue screen with the error message saying that Windows failed to load properly. This has happened about three times over the past week and each time I have reset my laptop only for it to happen again a few days later. I believe this issue started to occur shortly after installing version 1809 of Windows 10.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

[WAWood]

@jbegg3 

Win10 has enabled a new hibernation process known as Fast Startup -- which is different from Fast Boot. This is supposed to dramatically speed up the booting process, but in some PCs, it actually slows it down or causes it to hang. This could be what is happening to your PC.

Disabling Fast Startup might fix the booting problem.

There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win10: (1) through the Control Panel, and (2) through an elevated command prompt.

Control Panel - Open Control Panel --> Power Options.
Select "Choose what the power buttons do"
Select "Change settings that are currently unavailable"
At the bottom of the Window, under Shutdown settings, uncheck the box regarding fast startup

Elevated command prompt - run the following command:
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /V HiberbootEnabled /T REG_dWORD /D 0 /F

In both cases, reboot Windows.

NOW, FastStartup is disabled.