took over 2 hours to 'start protection' yesterday

Mine took over 2 hours to 'start protection' yesterday.  I've been having problems for the past 2 weeks and today again the 3rd remote to my pc and apparently all fixed.  I rebooted my new laptop that only takes a minute to boot up, but still waiting half an hour for protection to start... why is this happening ?

We updated Windows, uninstalled and reinstalled TM and yes, it worked initially until I did the update that was available and now I'm still having the same problems

What is going on ?  Never had a problem in the past like 10 years until now