Windows 10: Windows reinstalling itself by itself

Discus and support Windows reinstalling itself by itself in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; I just received the following note from one of my customers who is better then the average PC user. (As you may be able to tell) Anyone heard of... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by cfourkays, Dec 15, 2015.

  1. CFOURKAYS
    cfourkays Win User

    Windows reinstalling itself by itself


    I just received the following note from one of my customers who is better then the average PC user. (As you may be able to tell)

    Anyone heard of this?
    Pete
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ... HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING BEFORE????

    I have been using Win 10 on my Lenovo Flex 14 for (2) or (3) months now.

    I walked up to my computer last night and, out of the blue, it decided to totally reinstall Win-10.

    This process started by itself with no human intervention. It was just like the original install taking over (2) hours with the big circle on the screen showing the % progress as well as the various reboots along the way. Also the process completed with no screen ever coming up for the user to accept licensing terms and conditions.

    After the install finished it did mess up a few file associations ... .PDF’s were associated with the Edge Browser (go figure?)

    When first booting up after completing the install, it came up with the usual screens ... “Hi Tom” ... ready, and setting up a few things ... etc.

    When opening Edge, I could definitely see it was a fresh install, because it prompted regarding importing bookmarks from IE Explorer.

    Also, it wiped out my search indexes ... they are being regenerated now


    Windows reinstalling itself by itself [​IMG]


    :)
     
    cfourkays, Dec 15, 2015
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  2. WUNGRAILENG VASHI
    Wungraileng Vashi Win User

    Windows 10 reinstalling by itself

    Hi,

    Thank you for letting us know that you were able to identify the cause of the issue. We appreciate your effort.

    If you have any Windows related queries in the future, let us know. We will be glad to help.

    Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.
     
    Wungraileng Vashi, Dec 15, 2015
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  3. LADY JUSE
    Lady Juse Win User
    Windows 10 reinstalling by itself

    1. No, I did not make any changes

    2. This issue re-occurred for both today and yesterday, when I had this issue first.

    3. Yes.

    It also looks like it wasn't a virus because I did a scan when it happened yesterday and it didn't see anything that could be a problem
     
    Lady Juse, Dec 15, 2015
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  4. ANDREYT
    AndreyT Win User

    Windows reinstalling itself by itself

    Someone apparently just received the 1511 update... *Smile
     
    AndreyT, Dec 15, 2015
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  5. DEACONFROST
    DeaconFrost Win User
    Definitely sounds like one of the updates was applied.
     
    DeaconFrost, Apr 4, 2018
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