Just a random person who'll write a bunch of notes for themselves and hopefully it'll be helpful to someone out there. ...

The Problem: Shutting down computer but it was getting stuck at the Dell logo. Manually turning it off from the power/restart button and restarting from windows allowed the computer to boot into windows but shut down via windows caused it to get stuck at the Dell logo. The Fix: Disable Fast Start Up/Fast boot in Windows. https://mikerodionov.com/2017/03/how-to-control-fast-startup-setting-via-registry/ Just in case the link goes down... Copy and paste this into control panel bar Control P...