Some people have fixed the problem by going into Devices, turning on the display of hidden devices, and uninstalling all non-active devices. Naturally there are lots of reports from people who found the Bluetooth settings made no difference. Both of them had Devices and Printers opening quickly when they were done. The second one stopped the Bluetooth services and set them to Disabled. The first one started the Bluetooth services that weren’t running and set them to Automatic. Just so you know how strange Windows has become, there are two messages in a row here from people who fixed their problem by changing the Bluetooth services. But keep those notes about “Startup Type” in case you want to put them back to what they were. If you think that fixes your problem, you can double-click the Bluetooth services and set them to Disabled. See if that changes the way Devices and Printers starts up. Highlight each one and make a note of the “Startup Type.” Then click on “Stop the service” in the upper left for each one. Click on Start, type in services.msc and hit Enter. If that doesn’t change anything, leave Bluetooth off but try one more thing. Obviously, don’t disable Bluetooth if you’re using Bluetooth devices with your computer. There are reports of success going both ways. If Devices and Printers opens slowly and you want to tinker, go to Windows 10 Settings / Devices / Bluetooth and try turning Bluetooth off. The most frequent solution involves Bluetooth settings, for some reason. Waiting five minutes for a printer icon is the teensiest bit frustrating. Microsoft is slowly moving printer controls to the Windows 10 Settings menus but there’s not much there yet. When a print job gets stuck, or the computer loses its connection to a printer on the network, a trip to the Devices and Printers window is required to check the printer properties and clear print jobs. The old school Devices and Printers window in Control Panel is still the best way (and in some cases the only way) to resolve printing problems. The same computer might open Devices and Printers slowly one day and pop open the next day. There’s no pattern to it and no simple fix. It seems to have gotten worse since the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, the big update that your computer got somewhere between August and December. By that time, though, you have probably left and gone to lunch, possibly after punching a screwdriver repeatedly through the front of the computer. The green bar creeps across the empty window, as you see in the screen shot above. On some Windows 10 computers, some of the time, opening the Devices and Printers window in Control Panel takes anywhere from 90 seconds to five minutes.
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