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Hello everyone from a newbie (to this forum, not to 'puters & windows!)
I feel sure this has been covered many times before, but I can't help feeling that my case is somehow a little different (please don't ask why I get that feeling). So here we go then:
At first I did the 'free' upgrade from Win 7 pro to Win 10 pro. All seemed well for a couple of weeks. Then the PC crashed and locked itself into and endless loop of part booting and resetting. I tried to do repairs using both a USB stick and a DVD - nothing would work. I then tried to re-install (Win 10) "keeping my files and settings etc" but it refused point blank to allow it. In the end I had to re-install clean and loose everything.
So then it (after days spent re-installing loads of stuff) ran OK for a couple of days...... then the start menu stopped working, along with Edge (opened for about 2 seconds then disappeared), the search bar, & the action center. This of course has now rendered the much hyped Windows 10 almost completely useless!
So I started doing the usual searches (Google Chrome is still working!), and tried the many suggestions, some of which completely refused to even run ( Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} ) is a good example. All the others seemed to run ok but achieved nothing; like scannow and restore files etc.
Then I see one that seems to suggest that a new user account would be the magic 'repair'. But alas, Windows 10 wouldn't even allow me to create a new user (either family or 'other'). By the way, I am the ONLY user of this PC and I only have the one user account (Administrator). I found a way around this problem by creating a new user via the good old fashioned command prompt. But still those fancy new apps' refused to work. But I did discover that I could set up a new user account in the 'normal' way from within this newly created account (Right clicking the start menu and opening the control panel method). So this I did, thinking that finally I might be getting somewhere.
WRONG!! It is becoming quite clear to me now that the much talked about Windows 10 is a very long way from being all it was hyped up to be - a little better than useless, really. So what to do next? It's now been too long to roll back to Windows 7 (unless I format the HDD and re-install it -- really don't feel like going through that at the moment). Suppose I COULD TRY re-installing Win 10, AGAIN -- don't feel much like doing that either 'cos I have this horrible feeling that it won't actually fix anything, at least not for long.........
Any very clever people with a magic solution?? I will be forever thankful if someone can come up with one.
Many Thanks for reading, Glenn
I feel sure this has been covered many times before, but I can't help feeling that my case is somehow a little different (please don't ask why I get that feeling). So here we go then:
At first I did the 'free' upgrade from Win 7 pro to Win 10 pro. All seemed well for a couple of weeks. Then the PC crashed and locked itself into and endless loop of part booting and resetting. I tried to do repairs using both a USB stick and a DVD - nothing would work. I then tried to re-install (Win 10) "keeping my files and settings etc" but it refused point blank to allow it. In the end I had to re-install clean and loose everything.
So then it (after days spent re-installing loads of stuff) ran OK for a couple of days...... then the start menu stopped working, along with Edge (opened for about 2 seconds then disappeared), the search bar, & the action center. This of course has now rendered the much hyped Windows 10 almost completely useless!
So I started doing the usual searches (Google Chrome is still working!), and tried the many suggestions, some of which completely refused to even run ( Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} ) is a good example. All the others seemed to run ok but achieved nothing; like scannow and restore files etc.
Then I see one that seems to suggest that a new user account would be the magic 'repair'. But alas, Windows 10 wouldn't even allow me to create a new user (either family or 'other'). By the way, I am the ONLY user of this PC and I only have the one user account (Administrator). I found a way around this problem by creating a new user via the good old fashioned command prompt. But still those fancy new apps' refused to work. But I did discover that I could set up a new user account in the 'normal' way from within this newly created account (Right clicking the start menu and opening the control panel method). So this I did, thinking that finally I might be getting somewhere.
WRONG!! It is becoming quite clear to me now that the much talked about Windows 10 is a very long way from being all it was hyped up to be - a little better than useless, really. So what to do next? It's now been too long to roll back to Windows 7 (unless I format the HDD and re-install it -- really don't feel like going through that at the moment). Suppose I COULD TRY re-installing Win 10, AGAIN -- don't feel much like doing that either 'cos I have this horrible feeling that it won't actually fix anything, at least not for long.........
Any very clever people with a magic solution?? I will be forever thankful if someone can come up with one.
Many Thanks for reading, Glenn
