Did as you instructed and looked in Device Manager and there is NO yellow exclamation points there, at all.This is the best thing that's happened to me since, since I learned to breath. Yea It's that great to me.
What's the next thing I need to do?
Enjoy it. Not sure how you use this device.
As you've seen this is a straight forward process and as you don't have a lot of software to re-install you can clean install when ever it gets really cranky. MS will reactivate without the product code being keyed back in.
Normally I would load all my software, install printers, scanners and then take an image. I would use this image to restore thereby saving some time.
Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect
Tomorrow is patch Tuesday (second Tuesday of the month) so you will want to check for updates late afternoon. Hopefully this will address some glitchy stuff in V1803.
Load your data back on at some point. Maybe even keep a copy on your other device, HDD's are not forever.
Oh,, not sure if you went with a local account or a Microsoft account. If a local account I always enable a second admin account on device just so I have another way into machine without having to enable elevated Administrator account. (Although you've done that, been there.)
Ken
I am pretty happy for it being a Monday. I will follow your suggestions with making an image after I have everything back installed. You are right, I really don't keep much on here it's used to get movies and surf. Can not believe the mileage I've gotten from this on-sale, 2011 Toshiba. Best not to question.
Like I said Thanks seems pretty empty for all the help I've gotten. I've got the site in my bookmarks and you can be sure it's my go to when things take a turn and I'll be spreading the word of amazing abilities of this site. I'll be back if I need help with anything...Thank You Everyone..(Ken & TrustMe)
I had this issue yesterday. I had chosen to reboot in Safemode, and was faced with an inoperable password.
Cause: Minimal Safemode without networking does not allow safemode to access the internet to check the password. This means that those who login with MS credentials instead of as a local user find there is no way to get in, even with a perfectly good password entry.
Remedy: On the Welcome screen, press Shift while clicking the Restart option available by first clicking the power button icon on the lower right of the screen. This will give you a set of choices for booting another OS, etc. Choose the option to boot to a Command prompt.
Once rebooted and at the command prompt, type:
bcdedit /enum
You will see a list of settings. Under {default}, you will see the line: Safemode minimal. This is your problem.
Now type:
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safemode
The boot-into-safemode flag has been removed. Check by typing:
bcdedit /enum
...and you will see it has disappeared.
Type:
exit
... and now reboot back into normal mode.
Moral: Always select Safe Mode with Networking if you use an MS account to login.
Note the correction in bold. I have since discovered that even rebooting into Safe Mode with Networking is not working, either, and an attempt to do so made me deploy the fix above again. As things stand, Windows 10 x64 version 1803 (OS Build 17134.254) does not allow booting into Safe Mode, as the login screen does not accept valid password values. Have not tested with a local user account (as opposed to MS account) to see if that eliminates the problem.
Dear mrgeek,
I was trying to remove the twitch app and it had a lock on the Appdata/Roaming folder and would not uninstall after reboot. Twitch support pages suggest boot into safe mode and then the computer was locked and no passwords worked. Your post on using the USB boot image and killing the safeboot via command line just saved me from having to wipe my wife's computer and divorce.
One edit for windows 10, {current} was an unknown identifier.
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot
If I could buy you a beer I would!!
I tried entering a new PW for my Microsoft account using my phone but so far that isn't being picked up by my PC.
I dont have access to another PC (except a v old Windows 95 pc).
This is what I use to get into safe mode:
Code:The source for this is "The How To Geek" http://www.howtogeek.com/245175/how-to-add-safe-mode-to-the-windows-8-and-10-boot-menu/ [IMG] Booting into Safe Mode has long been a staple when troubleshooting Windows computers. Safe Mode starts Windows with only a limited set of files and drivers so you can figure out what’s wrong with your PC. But for some reason, Windows 8 and 10 make Safe Mode hard to get to. Here’s a fix for that. Before Windows 8 came along, you could press F8 right before Windows started loading to open a text-based Advanced Boot Options menu. That menu featured handy troubleshooting tools like booting into Safe Mode and starting Windows with the last known good configuration. Starting with Windows 8, that menu was removed in favor of a graphical menu that you could access in a few different ways–all more cumbersome than the original F8 shortcut. Fortunately, with a little Command Prompt wizardry, you can add Safe Mode right back to a boot menu that’s always available when you start up. Of course, if you just want to return to accessing the classic menu with the F8 key, we’ve got you covered there, too. You have to do this in an Admin Command Prompt, Just enter the three commands separately : bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows 10 Safe Mode" bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Safe Mode with Networking" bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" Note that it doesn’t really matter what you name the new boot entries, as long as it helps you recognize them. So, if instead of “Windows 10 Safe Mode,” you want to name your entry “Safe Mode” or even “Dorothy,” we won’t judge. Step Two: Configure Your New Boot Options with the System Configuration Tool What you’ve done so far is to create one or more copies of the current boot entry. You haven’t done any configuration yet, so if you were to boot your computer using one of them it would be the same as your regular Windows boot. To modify those entries to do what you want, you’ll use the System Configuration tool. Hit Start, type msconfig, and then select System Configuration. [IMG] Click the new entry you created for Windows 10 Safe Mode (or whatever you named it). Enable the “Safe boot” check box and make sure that the Minimal option is selected underneath it. Enable the “Make all boot settings permanent” option if it isn’t already. And, if you want, you can modify the Timeout value to specify how long you have to choose a boot option before the default OS is started. By default, timeout is always set to 30 seconds, but you can change it to any value between 0 and 9999 seconds. You can also set the value to -1 if you want the Boot Options screen to remain until you pick an OS. When you’ve selected your options, click OK. You’ll be asked to confirm the changes with a scary warning about everything you’ve done being permanent. Go ahead and click Yes. [IMG] When you’re asked if you want to restart your computer, go ahead and choose “Exit without restart.” That way, you can go ahead and configure any other boot entries you’ve made. If you created a Safe Mode with Networking entry, follow those same instructions to modify it, but after enabling “Safe boot” select the Network instead of the Minimal option. If you created a Safe Mode with Command Prompt entry, turn on the “Alternate Shell” option instead of the Minimal option. After you’ve configured everything, go ahead and restart your computer to test it out. At boot, you should see the “Choose an operating system” screen with your new choices. If you have any questions go to the link at the top. This works as I tested it. I tested it with build 14279 so it will work on the RTM. If it does not work with the next Redstone build you may have to repeat the process.
This may be the same as Josey's, but it adds convenient context menu entries to the Desktop Context Menu.
Add Safe Mode to Desktop Context Menu in Windows 10 | Tutorials
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