Windows 10: All startup items are missing from Win 10 after upgrade from Win 7

I just upgraded (using the MediaCreationTool1909) my Win 7 Home Premium desktop to Win 10 (1909 , 18363.476) yesterday. Before upgrading I disabled all windows startup items and all non-MS services in msconfig (performing a clean boot before the upgrade). I was happy that the upgrade only took about 1 hr 20 min. After the upgrade all the services were there in msconfig to be enabled, but NONE of the startup items were there (now in the task manager) except for the mouse driver and the realtek audio driver. Everything else is gone. 27 items that start via a registry run entry. All of the executable files are still there in there original location, just no startup anymore. A couple of the programs can be set to run on windows startup, but the rest, are set during installation. I am in the process of evaluating the status of all the programs. I don't want to reinstall all these programs, because even if able to I would lose years of configuration information.

Is this a known problem with W10 upgrade? Was it possibly caused by upgrading from a clean boot? I can recover the system back to the state prior to the upgrade and do again, but I'm not sure what I'd do differently.

Appreciate any help here.

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Recommend hardware changes for upgrading from Win-7 to Win-10

Bree
I followed your suggestions (2nd Aug 19) for installing Win-10. Made the bootable flash drive successfully through the media creation tool. But when I attempted to upgrade and activate to Win-10 (64 bit) from within Win-7 (Pro-32 bit), I got the following error message:

Error # OxC1900101-Ox20017. " The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation"

I read the diagnostics under this error number and carried out the proposed fixes, i.e. update Win-7, uninstall Malwarebyte antivirus, disconnect all external hardware, e.g. printer, scanner, external hard drives. I then tried to repeat the steps to do the upgrade through the Win-10 bootable flash drive as before. Got the same error message.
Appreciate any further comments and suggestions as to (a) what does a failure in the SAFE_OS during boot operation mean, (b) what can I do to solve it. Is this anything to do with the hardware in my computer? I listed these in my first posting above.
Thanks for any help

 

Win 7 startup

First, I have yet to personally use Win 7. I'm working on a computer with it and it's taking it forever to start like it's hung. After the screen with the scrolling bar, it stays there. They said the computer was randomly blue screen and I did a HD test and it said it was okay. What's up with the startup?

 

Win 7 and Win 10 on network

I have home network with separate modem, router, and WAP's. My Windows 7 computer does NOT list the Windows 10 computers on network computer list but the Windows 10 computers network list DO list the Windows 7 computer.

Turned off firewalls, gave permissions, shared drives. Nothing allows Win 7 computer to access the Win 10 computers.

Any suggestions for a fix?