If Windows 10 knew you had a blank or even a black screen of death, it would try to fix it. Given that tens of thousands of expert programmers have worked on the code over the past 30 years, the number of safe, simple, significant and forwards-/backwards-compatible improvements may be quite small. Microsoft has spent a lot of time (and money) trying to make Windows self-repairing, partly because it generally gets the blame when other programs – or users – try to “improve” it. Said machine then bricked: boot begins, then the screen blanks.Īre there any steps that I can take to recover access to the machine? Failing that, can I recover my files from the hard drive, installed in a USB cradle? John When it restarted, it reported a missing component. Repeat this procedure for all connected drives one at a time.I recently ran a free trial of a PC tune-up utility, including a disk clean-up routine, on my Windows 10 laptop. Select the C: drive and then click Optimize. Next, click on the Tools tab on the Local Disk (C properties window. Click delete files in the next box that pops up.
Check ALL of the boxes and then click ok. This time click on the box that says Clean up system files. You might need to move your mouse over the top of the Disk cleanup box if it seems like it's not doing anything for more than five minutes. In the popup box that says Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files, click Delete files. Right click on the C: drive and select properties.Ĭheck all of the boxes in the window that pops up. Next, open Windows explorer, navigate to the Windows folder and locate the Temp folder inside the Windows folder. If it asks to restart the system, then click ok or restart manually.Īfter restart, run Windows update again to make sure no further updates are available.
Turn on the setting for "Give me updates for other microsoft products when I update windows IF it is not already enabled.Ĭlick the back arrow in the top left corner to return to the Windows update main page.Ĭlick on check for updates and then let it run until no more updates are available or until it asks you to restart the system. OR right click the start menu and select Settings. Click the start menu and open "Settings".
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