Windows Update caused Extremely Slow Boot/Shutdown

[Microsoft Windows]

Hi All... I wonder if anyone can help me triage an issue with my PC. Let me break down my configuration, the symptoms, and what I see from basic triage... I have a small desktop PC with the following hardware profile:-Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B760-I Gaming Wifi, Rev 1.xx, runnion AMI BIOS v1604CPU: Intel Core i9-14900TRAM: 64Gb DDR5 RAMGPU: nVidia T600Disk: 2 x Samsung 990 Pro PCIe 4.0 4TbFrom a software perspective, the machine is configured to dual-boot via the grub Linux bootloader, with the following software configuration:-Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit - fully up-to-date according to Windows U

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