Windows 10: Taking Several Versions of Windows 10 including 2025-05 - rolled back and rebuilt Win 10...

Win10 desktop sat idle for 8 weeks during office furough. SSD drives were spinning when I arrived. Desktop must have been powered on during that time. To get any response beyond the sign on screen required a rebuild of MS Win 10 OS by using the power button to roll back. Eventually the system allowed me to do a safe boot.


Eventually the OS was stable enough to load Adobe and MS office products. They booted fine, as I moved between users, suddenly no local users including the admin profile build as admin could get past the login screen. Login screen would appear, then no additional action would respond


Boot to login process seems fine in this status. Login works for all users, then blue wheel of death just spins no matter what process I request on any of the users. I just took the updated Windows 10 including 2025-05 for x64 systems KB4556799. Problem still exists.


I can only power down by holding the power down until the computer powers off. I log back in and sometimes I get to the task manager to function for the first stage like to see the proccess, but mouse is sluggish and all processes are frozen. I can only activate one process and the computer freezes I have tried using window logo key to shutdown/restart without success. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks

 

The Ultimate Realtek HD Audio Driver Mod for Windows 10

Hey Dj Urko, I am trying to install the realtek driver and I get the error 0x0001. I have disabled secure boot and Driver signature. I have the latest win 10 build. What am I doing wrong? Can u post the complete list of steps that I have to take? I have an asus z170 with alc1150.
Thanks in advance