Taskbar Widgets keep closing, won't stay open

So I've been using Win 10 (upgraded from Win 7) for a few days and was going to try the Win 10 tonight to see if the Widgets are working.

I went to Control Panel, Backup and Restore, and select Create a System Image.

It starts, but then shows the following error (image)

and when going into Event Viewer and looking at VSS it says"

Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} and name CEventSystem cannot be started. [0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress. ] Event Xml: http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> 13 0 2 0 0 0x80000000000000 3831 Application SamEarley-PC {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} CEventSystem 0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress. "

I'm not sure why it would think a system shutdown is in process?

Yeah, I get that. But since my Win 10 was stuck on the last Dev build, I decided to so Win 7 upgrade to Win 10 release build (after WU it's 19043.1288).

Now that I got my apps any everything else updated and working, I can do a backup/clone to another drive and then so a Win 11 upgrade.

I still find it weird that I had this Widget problem to begin with, which I tracked down to my MS Account being listed twice in Windows and causing a conflict.

So it's been 2 days since I was able to get Win 10 (upgrade) installed over Winn7, as it kept failing using the .1288 ISO, but did work using the Windows Media Creation Tool. I think it was build 958 (or 985) that it installed, but then WU for it to the current .1288.

The issue with having my MS Account listed twice is gone/fixed, as it's now just listed once under Settings/Accounts. I was able to do the Verify link and had it send a code to the MS Authentication app on my phone.

So now I'm just getting Win 10 customized back the way I had it. Since it was an upgrade over my (cloned) Win 7 drive image, I had a bunch of programs that needed updating as well.

Once it's running Ok for a few days, I'm going to backup this drive and then try the Win 11 upgrade again to see if it works better and the Widgets issue is fixed since my MS Account info was fixed.

@FAUguy,

As I said earlier, it would have been quicker to do a clean install of Windows 11 and add all the programs that you need. 😁

So it's been 2 days since I was able to get Win 10 (upgrade) installed over Winn7, as it kept failing using the .1288 ISO, but did work using the Windows Media Creation Tool. I think it was build 958 (or 985) that it installed, but then WU for it to the current .1288.

The issue with having my MS Account listed twice is gone/fixed, as it's now just listed once under Settings/Accounts. I was able to do the Verify link and had it send a code to the MS Authentication app on my phone.

So now I'm just getting Win 10 customized back the way I had it. Since it was an upgrade over my (cloned) Win 7 drive image, I had a bunch of programs that needed updating as well.

Once it's running Ok for a few days, I'm going to backup this drive and then try the Win 11 upgrade again to see if it works better and the Widgets issue is fixed since my MS Account info was fixed.

So after trying a few more things and still having the error when Win 10 install gets to 91% I decided to try the Windows Media Creation Tool. Using that (making an ISO and extracting it to the SSD to install, it went all the way through and was able to upgrade from Win7. I'm not at the system right now, so not sure what Build # it installed

So later will get Win 10 customized and up to date bed re trying Win 11 again.

But I did check and it only has my MS Account listed 1 time, not twice which was causing the errors.