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Desktop icons slow to display (sometimes) on power on boot
Running Win11 Home, 24H2. Normally on a power on boot, I enter my Win11 password and press the ENTER key. The desktop icons are displayed within about a second. But in about once in 8 power on boot...
The intermittent nature points to a race condition. During a normal boot, your security software (BitDefender) and Windows Explorer (which draws the desktop and taskbar) start simultaneously. Most of the time, they play nicely. However, in about 1 out of 8 boots, BitDefender's background processes "win the race" and lock a critical system file or take too long to initialize, causing Explorer to freeze or time out while loading the desktop.