Small Blue Spinning Circle Sometimes on Desktop After Long Sleep

My new HP all-in-one is set to turn screen off after 10 minutes and sleep after 20 minutes. Generally, during the day, it awakens immediately when I type or use the mouse. The same behavior usually occurs at 5am when we first awaken it. But on occasion after the overnight sleep, the desktop appears, as expected, and the small blue spinning circle appears in the middle of the desktop. I note when this happens, hovering the mouse over a desktop icon does not "light it up" as it normally does. I can do nothing at this point but wait it out, sometimes 5 - 10 minutes. Then all is well for the rest of the day.

The behavior is annoying. All drivers are up to date, and a Defender quick scan shows nothing. The BIOS is at default.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

i would check your start up programs in task manager and see which programs are starting.
right click a clear area on the task bar and on that menu task manager.

you can disable them one by one to see if any of them are causing the problem.
best of luck, Steve ..

If you are unable to find what is keeping your device from properly waking up, here are your options.
All in Ones use laptop components and I have found that brings along with it modern standby (s0 sleep) not s3 sleep as what you are accustomed to.
The bios in some, (not all) allow the user to enable s3 sleep. You can either attempt to do that or otherwise, you have only 2 options, Stay with s0 sleep or use hibernate rather than s0 sleep. Modern standby cause a wide array of wake/sleep issues for some people.

First make sure you have the latest bios.
Print a copy of your current power configuration. Adding a screenshot here would be helpful.
Open cmd prompt as admin and type powercfg -a


Then print another powercfg report. It will tell you if s3 sleep has been enabled or not.

Otherwise to go with hibernate instead of modern standby

If you choose hibernate you can add it to your power menu.