Windows 10: Windows 10 cannot complete re-boot

I have a 6 month old Acer aio desktop - I am not tech saving having age and gender against me!!

So, came with Windows 10 Pre-installed and all updates are applied automatically. As above I am unable to give you my Windows Version number as I have no access.

After several updates 10/11 February, I was gradually losing all my Task Bar icons and programs no longer worked, including Windows Store where I was being advised to re-download my apps.

So following various forum posts, I first deleted all updates after 31st January 2020 as I knew it was ok then, oh and incidentally I do have Mcafee full security Program and Malawarebytes, and use CC. no problems previously.

After re-boot follow the above, still more apps were lost/not working, so I took the decision to do a full clean install following instructions here, and on my computer.

It took many hours but eventually I got a blue screen telling me Windows could not re-install because of something missing, it suggested I connected to the internet to download whatever was missing and it found my Wi Fi and asked me to input my Password. It then went into a loop but on the second and subsequent attempts did not giving me the chance to put any Wi Fi info into the computer.

So, my question is, where to go from here, is it Windows or the Computer, as said before it is only 6 months old. I am in the UK.

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Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.


Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

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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.

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