Many of these reports came from users of Windows 10 Home which doesn't have the group policy editor...

(This is in HKeyLocalMachine.)
I do not have a NoChangingLockScreen key at all but if I did I'd have tried this...
I found somewhere the suggestion to delete the key "NoLockScreen" in this...

This may be solved at least for me. I did an image restore using Macrium booting from the rescue disk and everything seemed fine till I updated Avast. So, even before any of the Windows updates...

Me too, I have spent the day broken since getting the updates. I am now restoring to a mid February image after booting from my Macrium rescue CD. I could not use any applications or menus or right...

I can't uninstall all the updates that installed yesterday because settings won't even open...

Help?

I booted from recovery media but no applications will open so I cannot do a system restore or reset or use Macrium to repair Windows. I am getting desperate, what does anyone suggest?

I used the power button to turn it off, it took my password and said Welcome for a minute, then again the black screen that never resolves into my desktop.

My computer does not make it to the desktop this morning, is anyone else having this problem? I turned it on from the off state, and once on my desktop no application would start, it gave an error...

I am not sure where to post this thread - I will not be in the least offended if someone moves it for me. Thanks!

I have a few DistributedCOM errors in my event viewer every time I start my...

I did repair it - found my installation media - and after a reboot it seems to have cleared up the problem. Thanks!

I found that just in the past day or two, my file type associations for MS Office programs are all broken. Can't double click on any Office file but if I right click and choose the application, it...

I got the update a day or two ago, and now when I paint the windows version on my desktop, instead of saying "Windows 10 Build 99999" it says "Build 14393.rs1_release_inmarket.160819-1924." Um, WTF?...

I actually don't know if I got it - I don't think so. My daughter's laptop obviously got it, but I don't think mine did, it still says it's running Build 10586 - that's not it, right? I have a...

Thanks - I had found that and it was already checked. But while I've been sitting here posting and googling, it reappeared. Windows mystifies me... :)

I searched to see if anyone addresses this issue and didn't find a thread for my exact problem, pardon me if I missed it...

I used to have a bluetooth icon showing in my system tray/notification...

It reset some of my registry tweaks too. I had no idea this was coming!

That's it alright! I am not sure what is different, actually, despite the long splash screen trumpeting new features. Other than that I have to remove OneDrive again.

Despite turning off my computer every night, Windows update kept telling me that I needed to restart so I did.. and now it doing what appears to be a very large update of the OS. Has anyone else...

Which is why it baffles me that if I update using one of these, Windows Update downgrades me to the last one that is officially on their website R2.79 2015/6/25. Why doesn't Windows Update know...

Thanks... maybe that's what happened here.

I may yet do that... but this may have to do with the Avast self defense module that I had previously turned off in Windows 8 because it interferes with system restore functions. I checked and when...

Sorry if this is not the place to post - I tried to do a system restore today, I chose a restore point and went through the exercise and then my computer would not restart, it went into a loop asking...

I see this notification in my Action Center but if I run services.msc, Security Center is running. So can I safely ignore this and see if it goes away on my next boot?

Just wanted to say thanks for this, I found my error after trying to troubleshoot the famous disappearing start menu bug, and was able to make DISM complete the repair with the .wim I got via your...