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Seems after the last Windows 10 auto update, got an error that password was incorrect. Called Microsoft. They wanted me to restore from an earlier restore point. How To Repair and Restore Windows 10 By Henry T. Casey | April 30, 2019 10:45 am Perhaps Windows 10 won't start. Or maybe it boots, but crashes a lot. In either case, you need to fix the problem before you can use your laptop. If your screen is rotated, don't even worry about that because we have a fix for that. Otherwise, here are a few ways to repair Windows 10. Method 1: Use Windows Startup Repair If Windows 10 won't even boot up and take you to the login screen or the desktop, your first step should be to use Startup Repair. Here's how: 1. Navigate to the Windows 10 Advanced Startup Options menu. There are many ways to get to Windows 10 Advanced Startup Options. On many laptops, hitting F11 as soon as you power on will get you there. Booting off an install disk and hitting Next then Repair will do the job too. Once your computer has booted, you'll want to select Troubleshoot And then you'll need to click Advanced options. 2. Click Startup Repair. Windows will take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes to attempt to fix the problem. It may not be able to. If you don't actually have a startup problem, it will also say it can't fix the problem. Method 2: Use Windows Restore 1. Complete step 1 from the previous method to get to Windows 10's Advanced Startup Options menu. 2. Click System Restore. The computer will reboot. 3. Select your username. 4. Enter your password. 5. Select a restore point from the menu and follow the prompts. If you have no restore points, you can't use this method. Method 3: Perform a Disk Scan Your Windows 10 problems may stem from a corrupt file. If you can boot into the operating system -- even if you have to boot into safe mode -- you should perform a file scan to check for problems. 1. Type "cmd" into the main search box. 2. Right click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator. 3. Type sfc /scannow at command prompt and hit Enter. The scan will take a while and should fix any corrupted files it finds. Method 4: Reset Windows 10 If you want to get a clean start, free from rogue software and drivers, you usually don't need to do a full install. Instead, Windows 10 provides a built-in reset feature which takes your computer back to the way it was before you had any software, special devices or data preloaded. On a side note, if you're giving your computer to someone else, resetting is a good way to wipe it. See our tutorial on how to reset Windows 10 to refresh your PC. Method 5: Reinstall Windows 10 from Scratch If all else fails and you can't even reset your Windows computer, you can reinstall entirely. You won't even need an activation number or any proof of purchase, either. Just make sure you have more than 4GB of space available, as that's how much space the file you'll download takes up. Here's how to reinstall Windows 10: MORE: How to Get Help in Windows 10 1. Visit this page and click Download tool now. 2. Click on the download link at the bottom of your screen. 3. Click Accept. 4. Select Create installation media for another PC and click Next. 5. Click Next. 6. Click Save and wait for the download to finish. 7. Select ISO file and click Next. 6. Click Save and watch it download. 7. Click Finish. 7. Open the Windows ISO file you downloaded. 8. Open Setup. 9. Click Next. 10. Click Accept. Be prepared to wait a while. This next part may take a while. 11. Click Install. Again, this will take a moment while your system restarts. 12. Wait for your system to restart and install Windows 10. You've reinstalled Windows 10! We hope it fixed your problems. Check out the below table of contents for more fixes.
Well, the restore completed and made the computer worse in that it will not even go to a login screen. I called Microsoft back and after working with a tech from India, they said a higher level tech will call me back on Sunday. So this laptop is going to be down for the rest of the day. Looks like I will need to do some type of clean install.
I wish they went back to having users pay for Windows. They could reduce the price for say Windows 11 to just $ 10. Then people who wanted to stay on Windows 7 or Windows 10, and we would not need to keep getting massive updates that break the computer. If your going to make Windows 10 different not just fix bugs, make a new version of Windows.
So of course the lev 2 tech never called me back. I called MS again, and now am waiting on hold for a lev 2 tech to talk to me. What is the point of making an appointment if no one calls you back?
When I click on form to e-mail Microsoft about the feedback I want to give them for not calling me back. I get This page doesn’t exist.
Issues like what you are having are why I mark my connection as metered to keep Windows from automatically updating (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/26/windows-10-how-to-stop-forced-updates) and why I use Macrium Reflect Free (https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree) to backup my C: drive before doing any Windows update. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 has something that might help you reinstall Windows on the bad laptop: "Using the tool to create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) to install Windows 10 on a different PC (click to show more or less information) ..."
Yes, I had to create another windows 10 usb thumb drive with 1903. I did a custom install which got Windows 10 back up and running. The user data files were still in Windows.old on the C drive, so I just needed to reinstall the applications and copy them back. The main thing the tech from Microsoft helped me do is to create the thumb drive and tell me which custom option to use to reinstall Windows 10 so I would not lose my data files. What may have happened is that this laptop tried to install the massive update to Windows 10 1903 and ran into problems. Maybe because I used local accounts instead of Microsoft Accounts, the passwords got messed up. To resolve this issue, I created a new Microsoft account using a new Microsoft Outlook e-mail account which I also created for the user. Now the computer wants to use a pin to login just like your Apple Iphone does. So I created pins for all users. I just wish Microsoft did not need to destroy the computer to get to do all this shit. I see no real benefit of having to type in a pin rather just using a password. It's not like there are anyone using Microsoft cell phones. People just use Iphones or Android phones. I have decided to still allow this computer to run updates since I already did all of the hard stuff to fix it.