Just trying to help as no one had answered for 5 days.

Try 'Cleaning' the HDD!
I wrote this guide a little while ago to prepare drives for a NAS (The DOS pictures haven't copied so see the attached pdf...
CAREFUL, AS THIS WILL WIPE THE HDD WITHOUT AN...

If this is a laptop then remove the battery and ac adaptor for a few mins and it should boot up.
Also, try tapping F8 at boot up and choose Safe Mode, this can fix a few things.
To disable...

Do the usual checks for virus' and malware (Malware Bytes), run sfc /scannow from an admin cmd prompt, un install and reinstall iTunes from a fresh download.

It could be that a recent update to the graphics drivers has failed and Windows has defaulted back to basic low-res graphics.

Take out the battery and mains adaptor for a few minutes and try again.

It sounds like there's a problem with the Print Spooler service.
Have a look here for some suggestions to try...
[Fixed] Print Spooler Keeps Stopping Automatically in Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1...

Noo, I mean using Norton Ghost! I have to run a Windows repair on the Ghost'd disk, but it works from XP to Win 10. I've done this literally hundreds of times, however, not with GPT disks!
You are...

Sorry, axe0 this isn't true, and I currently run Win 10 with an MBR SSD.
You only really need a GPT format if your HDD/SDD is larger than 4TB. However GPT is more robust.
Use Legacy boot for MBR...

Fakum - Sometimes with Windows you just have to resign yourself to 'Nuke & Rebuild' :(

Anybody had any instances of it bypassing WSUS? :eek:

Chrunos said "... I think your best shot is tomigrate Windows 8.1 to SSD. And then upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 on SSD. If anything goes wrong with windows 10, you still have the windows 7 on your...

No windows 10 dvd/usb? Try this... Windows 10

My 2 cents...
Boot from the Windows dvd/usb and restore back to a date before the update.
Hope you get it sorted

Vista can't use IE above version 9!

When another antivirus program is installed Windows will turn Defender off.

paulsalter and bromanbro,
PCs sold with windows 8 will have the prod id in the bios/motherboard, so win 8 and win 10 will find and use this.
Win 7 has a sticker and you'll need to enter this in win...

Boot the windows install dvd/usb and get to a command prompt and run:
bcdboot c:\windows - where "c:\windows" specifies the root of Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8/10
In your case: bcdboot...

Hi Fanzal, to let users modify the Start, you have to un-check read-only on the file.