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Windows won't boot
So, Windows defender started giving me a message about the threat service being stopped and needing to restart it, which I couldn't do. Looked online and all I could find was unhelpful posts about "this is because you installed a third party AV" (not true) and you need to change the DisableAntiMalware registry key to 0 (which I didn't even have anyway) but I tried it and it didn't work
Figured I'd try and do a system restore from a few days ago which failed with the appsxstaging error, which I've had before but always managed to sort my problem out another way. Googled that again and found the "solution" about doing takeown on the WindowsApps folder, then icacls then deleting or renaming the folder. Tried that but all I got was access denied errors (getting mighty tired of useless "solutions" people post). Decided to boot back normally, oh wait that doesn't work now. Just sits there on a black screen and I can't do any kind of startup repair.....