I copied and pasted the exact files that were needed from my surface book. I forgot the exact procedures though.

It's not too old lol. I'm still here.

I never uninstalled, just left it there and drove my OCD away. Fixing the loop for the first time was too scary. And the following attempts even with restore...

Call me crazy... I uninstalled the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver again and the same thing happened again. I went through the whole process again rofl. So the culprit was indeed this...

Thanks for your reply. Now I am certain tenforums are almost always more helpful than Microsoft answer XD

I was surprised there was no mechanism to stop me from copying an important system file...

After disabling Auto Repair it finally gives some useful info:

The system is missing "system32\drivers\wd\WdBoot.sys" with an error code 0xc000007b

Anyone having any insights while I'm doing...

I would be so happy if I did not procrastinate and started doing image backs as I should have :banghead:

EDIT: forgot to mention that I have been running on version 1803 since summer and never had this issue.

I was cleaning my PC by uninstalling old programs and update some of them to the latest...

I think I've got it working. After several reboots and gpupdate the original warning is gone, replaced by "active hour" policy notice, and now completely gone. I've also gone through the command...

Ah now I see. I do have a point of about 24 hours ago, but I installed and configured a critical software last night which is said to be affected by this restore, so I'm still trying to avoid the...

I would definitely do that if I had one, but unfortunately I've been too lazy to do backups :banghead:

Please excuse me for posting hastily right after registration, it's not elegant, but I'm in dire need of help after hours of manual operations :(

Basically, someone borrowed my computer and...