Windows 10: Broken Update. How to Boot into safe mode?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to help my housemate with his laptop, yesterday Windows updated and the installation didn’t go well...

Now his laptop turns on and just sits on ‘We couldn’t complete the updates Undoing changes Don’t turn off your computer’ and stays here for hours.

I want to try and boot into safe mode to remove the windows update, but I’ve not used windows for a while and reading online about how to boot int safe mode there seems to be a lot of info that doesn’t work.

I’ve tried pressing F4, F5 and F8 when the laptop is starting up, I’ve tried restarting multiple times as I read that restarting 3 times will enter the advanced recovery mode but that didn’t work either.

It’s crazy that windows can just break your laptop with an update... any ideas?

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Good Evening,
I could do with some pointers on resolving an issue. I can only boot into windows in safe mode in Windows 10. Normal mode and safe mode with networking doesn't work. The problem occurred after a windows update. I have removed the latest updates that were installed and cleared any pending ones but it still won't boot properly. I have also run the troubleshooter and tried to recovery to an earlier date which also doesn't work.
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• stopping startup items
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• removing recent software
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Bit of a dead end really, any help would be much appreciated
Kind regards
Trevor

 

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