First, I do have WD Black NVme set as my boot drive and everything boots quickly... My issue is that when I logon, for the first minute of usage, all apps open easily, within a second or two typically. However, after the PC has been on for about a minute, almost all application load time goes into the 30sec to 2+ minute range. I have already been through sfc, DISM and chkdsk (which did find a bad sector, didn't fix the issue, did fix the sector tho). I've been hounding task manager to see if there's anything that's hogging resources or jumping in CPU usage when I open an application, nothing goes over 1% (that isn't being opened) and they are all windows services. In regards to games and other similarly large executables, the program won't even appear in TM where it would typically appear as it's loading sed application. Another curious thing is that when I get apps running within the first minute, I can tell when the slowdown/lag/freeze/ISSUE? is as the application, typically chrome, will freeze (this issue occurs regardless of Chrome being used at any point).
Other things I've tried: I've removed all non-essential services and programs from startup and this didn't do anything, tried suspending Windows Defender, this didn't do anything either.
Specs:
Ryzen 5600,
16GB RAM,
1TB WD Black NVMe SSD
RTX 3600 Ti
Windows 11
Though I don't believe my specs are causing the issue
Are there any services or applications, anything really, that's known to cause similar issues because I'm at my wits end with this one.
Thanks in advance!
Other things I've tried: I've removed all non-essential services and programs from startup and this didn't do anything, tried suspending Windows Defender, this didn't do anything either.
Specs:
Ryzen 5600,
16GB RAM,
1TB WD Black NVMe SSD
RTX 3600 Ti
Windows 11
Though I don't believe my specs are causing the issue

Are there any services or applications, anything really, that's known to cause similar issues because I'm at my wits end with this one.
Thanks in advance!
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