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Hi Elaine,
I'm Baran. i am a user of Windows since the beginning, with 3.1. And all the way to the present. Everyone built their own systems back in the 80's, 90's and the first decade of the new millennia. And Microsoft was a great bunch of developers, coders, and sales people who time after time built and distributed elegant systems that would adapt to users needs. This meant that a lot of errors were made, and on-the go-innovation and crisis management would become touchstones of the first, or even second years in the lifetime of a new operating system.
Please be patient with me. I am long winded. and solution minded.
No more.
MS is all about money. Cutting cost. Customer service on the fly. Abandoning a flagship operating system in order to mandate assured system obsolescence. Making and marketing something new, but without any follow-up support.
Fortunately, their is so much documented research and go-to fixes for Windows 10 systems as well as Windows 11 systems, that you can overcome any problems, if you are willing to be patient, careful, and willing to put a few hours in to take control of your system back.
The issue with monthly issue of Windows (Microsoft) Upgrade, as I see it, is that it is a patch, designed for machines that are OEM software and OEM hardware friendly. That is a huge change, and falls in line with the new attitude across the entire industry They have declared a boundary.. Simply stated, the manufacturers are telling us that we will pay a price for having our systems do what we want them to do. And the price is obsolescence. As most of us have some kind of hardware and]or software tweaks or installations added to our systems over the years, we start to fall outside of that boundary. Sooner or later,
The nice thing about Windows 10 is that one can still make the system repair itself, correctly and elegantly. The February Windows 10 patch took away my Administrator rights to my system by overriding the Windows Hello Pin that I had established when I first bought. I was in a rage for weeks. Because I now had a brick that I could play solitaire on, but not upgrade my Adobe, or any other apps when upgrades become available, because the system told me I had no right to do it.
Now, there are a few really cool folks here in the forums. One is Greg Carmack. He currently has a forum in Windows 10 called 'Hacked"... There are several others also who are great, but I mention him because he made me see the light. In other words, he spoke plainly enough for me to see that I had previously had my head up my ****, and that I needed help. I had to do something drastic. All of the standard fixes are just panaceas for the most part. He had a whole forum specifically detailing how to do a clean install of 10.
I couldn't do that. The last system I manually repaired, by just good ole common sense, was XP.
He also had tons of references. And my solution came from Ten Forums, one of those sites where folks have found the magical solutions, and put them online. I had to do this process. In these exact steps.
- Turn system off manually, with the power switch or button, by holding it down until the system stops.
- Wait a few minutes, or days. Depends upon how driven you are to get things working again.
- Turn the system on normally.
- Instead of logging in, turn the system off manually, again using step 1 method.
- Wait at least ten seconds (my suggestion, not the pros), then turn the system on again as in step 3.
- Repeat step 4.
- Repeat step 3.
- Repeat step 4
- Repeat step 3
At some point while performing step a repetition of step 3,you will see a completely different screen. It will be similar to the one that comes on if you are installing a new operating system. This is the Automatic Repair Installation. There are seven ways to get to it. Because I had lost Administrative rights, only the last, and most drastic method would get me there. It looks to me like you are fast approaching that scheme, if I read your symptoms correctly
Once you are there, you have a couple of decisions to make. This must be more difficult for Pro and Networked systems. But in the end, you will know what to do. You will be asked if you want to save your personal files and documents, or not. All non OEM apps will be wiped out.
It's okay, just do it. I didn't keep anything. Fresh start. Oh, if you are prompted for an Administrator password, Then you didn't go far enough. Start from step one, and go through the checklist.
The forcing of the power on/off sequencing causes the security descriptors of Windows 10 to go haywire. The next thing to go haywire are the UAC protocols. That is the foundation of the system Administrative profiles. It took me getting all the way to the 25th step Once that is overridden, you are at the most basic boot level, and all Windows systems are designed to go into Automatic repair mode at this juncture.
Before, I had a Windows 10 Home 64Bit Version 10.0 19045 22H2 that started as a Version 10.0 19041 20H1 when I bought it for $190.00 new at Best Buy in May 2020. It was already semi obsolete then. Now, I have a lightning fast Windows 10 Home 64Bit Version 10.0 19045 22H2, with a system date of 23 March 2023. When the repair is complete, it runs Windows Update. And it only keeps the one update immediately previous to the update required on the date you do the job. Whole gigabytes of garbage are gone. And I have some peace of mind.
Oh, I just have one account on the laptop. Mine, the administrator.
I have really been long winded. I do apologize. I guess I like to hear myself tap the keys!!!
BK
