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Failed to Connect to a Windows service - Groupd Policy Client Service
Hi - Having lots of trouble here and very frustrated. On login, I get the message "Failed to Connect to a Windows Service. Windows couldn't connect to the Group Policy Client service. This problem prevents standard users from signing in. As an Administrative user you can review " (I am not sure what other parts of the message I am missing).
So, there are other thread out there for this problem, but I can hardly do anything on my desktop right now. Very Ironic to me that about the only that seems to work okay is Microsoft Edge so I could get here. Other threads have talked about running some things from the command line (as admin) or going into regedit. I have tried these things. But I get stopped. Ususally 5 minutes or so later I will get some kind of message stating it could not run the program in an appropriate amount of time. I tried to go into event viewer and got the same thing.
I don't even know what is going on. For some reason I believe that the root cause of this was me being dumb enough to accept when windows 10 wanted me to run with my Hotmail account as the administrator of the pc (so I sign in with my Hotmail credentials).
I don't even know a next step because almost everything I try gets blocked. I try to switch to run as a local user and that bombs out every time. I tell you, I loved windows 7. I now lividly hate windows 10. I skipped everything in between and then bought a new pc thinking it would be okay with 10. Boy was I wrong.