Windows 10: My Desktop PC stuck on "System Restore is restoring the registry...", What should I do?

I have a Desktop PC that is Windows OS and is shared with me, my brother, and nephew.
Last night, my nephew logged into my brother's accountto play Minecraft and when he started it up, from what he told me, he received a pop-up message. He said he didn't remember what the pop-up message said but he pressed something.
It rebooted the PC and somehow it wiped half of my brother's desktop account. Some stuff is still there but A LOT of files were missing and were rearranged. He even has the default Windows wallpaper. What's more weird is that when I clicked Google Chrome, it said to "make it into a default browser", when he had it as a default before. It's almost as if he was making his account for the first time. I asked my brother yesterdayhe used the PC before my nephew if it was like this before but he told everything was fine and intact when he used it.

I checked my account and everything on the desktop was there intact except for two things. My wallpaper was just a black screen, and my taskbar color some reason changed into whiteit was black before.

I tried to "restore" the whole PC back to how it was yesterday when my brother used it11/4/20 9:35 AM by doing the restore point method and started the process at around 1 pm. It's 10 pm currently at my time and all it has been saying "Please wait while your Windows files and settings are being restored. System Restore is restoring the registry..." with the circle animation STILL spinning and with a blue screen in the background.

Could the process be corrupted? I'm not sure what to do. I want to disconnect the plug and restart it but I'm really afraid it would brick my PC or something.
What should I do?

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System restore got stuck

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate if you could answer few questions to narrow down to the issue.

• What was the exact issue that you were facing that lead to perform restore?
• Did you receive any error message, when the system restore got stuck?
• Did you install any third party security application?

Since the computer is being stuck, I suggest you to restart the computer and try to perform the restore again and check if it helps.

I also suggest you to provide more information regarding the issue which led to perform system restore along with the make and model of the computer.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

System restore stuck on registry

I did a system restore and it has been at least 6 hours and it is stuck on registry. I did a hard reset and now NOTHING!!! HELP PLEASE? !

Dee

 

How to restore registry values?

Hello,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

You can perform system restore and check if it helps:

Perform System restore.

I suggest you to perform system restore and select a date prior to the changes which was done with the registry values and check if the issue gets fixed.

To perform System restore:

• Press Windows key + X, select
  System.
• In the left pane, click on System Protection.
• Select the option to system restore
  > next. It will show all restore points already created.
• Select the date prior to the date on which you have made the registry changes.

Registry disclaimer

To do so: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these
steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ )

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows



Try the above step and let us know the status of the issue. We will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.