Right click on the Start button where you will see most tools you are likely to use and just click on them.
With Event Viewer, on mine it has occasionally not defaulted to Event Viewer (Local) not being highlighted in the upper left pane, but you just need to click on it for to get the Errors.
When you see Critical, Errors etc. click on Errors then on Show All Instances of This Event in the lower right pane and clicking on either of those that come up will give a brief description in the lower pane, which isn't always intelligible.
I recently upgraded a laptop for someone that needed more than one account on it and with passwords and when that booted up, the time would come up with the picture and you had to press enter to get to the log in screen.
I think that's a trait when you have password protected accounts as I don't get that on mine where I don't use a password.
On one of my two laptops that are upgraded I occasionally get the picture or just the blue screen with my username on it, but it does go onto boot up.
As long as you can get to your log in screen, then I wouldn't worry too much about it.
