Windows 10: OOBE showing up on Explorer restart

Recently, since I moved to new user profile on my PC. I've been seeing the OOBE section when restarting explorer.exe or even just logging back into my account. The screen looks like this: It only appears for 3 seconds, but I find it very annoying. I've been trying to fix it, but nothing seems to work, and it also affects the Administrator user profile as well... I also do not feel like creating another user profile either.

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CloudExperienceHostBroker triggering restart during OOBE after AUDIT


Hi Dears,
I'm just trying to change the profiles directory and ProgramData directory paths after a Windows 10 upgrade to allocate these in D:\Users and D:\ProgramData respectively (source OS: Windows 8 Pro installed just to perform a clean upgrade), but I'm having a problem. After installing Windows 10 I execute the sysprep with the unattended XML as follows:

• sysprep /oobe /reboot /unattend:\Unattended.XML

It performs the cleanup and restarts the system into OOBE, but it always get restarted in the "Just a moment" screen after Customize Settings (Just to be clear, step 18 of guide Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums).

At first glance I thought it was a drivers issue (I have read somewhere that users with NVIDIA cards where facing issues during the customizations, so I tried adding the PersistAllDeviceInstalls as true in the unattended, and now I think it is not the problem.

Instead, what I did is I have just restarted everything, reinstalled windows 8 pro, upgraded to win 10 and executed the sysprep with the XML just once till it was restarted again, then after the restart I just executed the console with SHIFT+F10 and executed the eventvwr, and luckily me I found the error:

CloudExperienceHostBroker.exe is triggering a restart during the customization, and the reason for the restart is "System Reconfiguration".

The problem now is that I don't know how to solver or skip this, I tried replacing the EXE with a cmd.exe, and it just broke the oobe and I had to restart anyways.

I was looking for information around unfortunately without any valuable information, has someone faced this before? Do you think it is failing because I'm doing something wrong somewhere else? How should I proceed?

 

Restart PC during Windows OOBE

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Rest assured you can force the PC to shut down in the OOBE and when you restart the PC it will restart at the OOBE.

 

OOBE MDM

Hi, I'm Elise, and I'd be happy to help with your issue.

Could you try these steps:

Disconnect any LAN or WiFi connections (no access to the internet)

At the OOBE screen, press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to enter Audit mode.

Proceed to restart system with OOBE

Register with local account.

Reconnect network connections.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Kind Regards,

Elise