The white loading symbol appears immediately before switching to the main menu screen, and (at least on my system) is shown for less than half a second.
Try doing a clean boot and then test the game. Maybe also create a new Windows administrator user account and use that to test after rebooting.
Click Start, or hit WinKey-R, type in msconfig and hit enter; in the General tab, click Selective Startup, uncheck Load startup items (if required) and leave Load system services and Use original boot configuration options checked. Next, Click on the Services tab, check the box to Hide all Microsoft services, then click the Disable All button, then click OK and reboot the computer.
Run msconfig again to switch back to the normal boot configuration.
