I have just come out of that long road for 3 months. 95% of the answers that you get on this thread won't help. MS is no help at all. I even called them and they wanted me to pay $95 a hour to have an MS engineer look at it. No way. I say MS caused
this and they should fix it.
Over a 4 month period and a full 5 days of my time, I gave up. I took it to a PC shop and they told me what I already knew. The MS Windows was corrupted by the download of an up and that the whole unit had to be rebuilt. That is exactly what I did not
want to hear, but had no choice. It has take me another month to rebuild it. Suggest that you rebuild it and move on.
I wish there was an alternative to MS, but wait there is .......Apple.
I have another PC that I have spent days on trying to fix. Bing has overtaken Gooogle and it keeps popping up. I cannot get rid of Bing. It is buried in the registry somewhere.
I really am starting to dislike MS. IT is way to complicated for most people to operate and configure. I am going to back to Win 7 and Office 7 and just going to stay there.