Windows 10: Stuck In Diagnostic Startup

power down machine. once it’s off, hold down shift key & hit power button. continue holding the shift key til windows starts. you should boot to the regular lockscreen & be able to login.

for alternate start options: press windows key + R. type msconfig & hit enter. on general tab are selective startup options. i wouldn’t suggest diagnostic startup with an active lockscreen.. that’s how i found this string *Wink.

for safemode, i found this nifty deal that describes multiple ways to boot to safemode: http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-way...ode-windows-10

 

What a drama this is and how is it possible the Windows team could let something like this happen. I entered diagnostic mode using msconfig and I was locked into the users background screen and 3 buttons in the RH bottom corner 1. network connected indicator 2. options for keyboard 3. shutdown options . I found by a couple of hours experimenting winkey + p gives some screen options and nothing else. The computer did not have an option to boot from a USB so had to bring the computer home and put the ssd in another computer but my fix it disk could do nothing.
Came across this post and after a number of attempts at interrupting the start up I finally got it into the screen with some options and choose safe mode as described above finally got back to normal start up choose msconfig which was now in selective start up and choose normal start up. I use Linux on my servers and I guess I am biased to that OS but I just can not figure how an error like this can be shipped with an OS that, lets face it, is designed for users who don't have any tech skills. I guess it keeps a lot of sysadmins and techs employed.