I had an awesome HP desktop I bought 4yrs ago running Windows 7 64-bit. It was really fast, had 700GB free on the hard disk, I kept it free of bloatware etc.
I was excited about upgrading to Windows 10 and got it ASAP. Well... It *looked* like it upgraded perfectly, keeping all my desktop settings. But when I cliked the Start menu and taskbar they didn't work. Now, apparently this is a known bug and I tried this fix: [link for The Windows Club which the forums will not let me post because it's considered spam] which recommended running this command from Powershell:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
I did that. I didn't get any error messages but it didn't fix the problem. That's when the fun begins. I figured I'll restart it and maybe that will help. Well, the computer sat on the pink restart screen for about 30 minutes. By then I figured it was stuck in an endless loop and there was no point in waiting so I manually cut the power. When I turned it back on, Windows would not start. Kept trying to "repair" itself and automatically restarting until it brought me to a menu that basically offered me to reset my whole computer. WHAT?!
After 2 hours on phone with Microsoft Support the diagnosis was: I can either wipe all my files and reset everything, or bring it to a Microsoft store where he is "confident" they can fix it. Uh oh.
I went out and bought a 2TB external HD and am currently backing up an image of my hard drive, booting from a Linux Live USB session -- just in case they mess something up at the Windows store.
Yes, they say they'll fix it for free, but this is taking 2 days out of my life! And I usually work from home on that computer!
Why on Earth would this have happened? Anyone have an idea?
I was excited about upgrading to Windows 10 and got it ASAP. Well... It *looked* like it upgraded perfectly, keeping all my desktop settings. But when I cliked the Start menu and taskbar they didn't work. Now, apparently this is a known bug and I tried this fix: [link for The Windows Club which the forums will not let me post because it's considered spam] which recommended running this command from Powershell:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
I did that. I didn't get any error messages but it didn't fix the problem. That's when the fun begins. I figured I'll restart it and maybe that will help. Well, the computer sat on the pink restart screen for about 30 minutes. By then I figured it was stuck in an endless loop and there was no point in waiting so I manually cut the power. When I turned it back on, Windows would not start. Kept trying to "repair" itself and automatically restarting until it brought me to a menu that basically offered me to reset my whole computer. WHAT?!
After 2 hours on phone with Microsoft Support the diagnosis was: I can either wipe all my files and reset everything, or bring it to a Microsoft store where he is "confident" they can fix it. Uh oh.
I went out and bought a 2TB external HD and am currently backing up an image of my hard drive, booting from a Linux Live USB session -- just in case they mess something up at the Windows store.
Yes, they say they'll fix it for free, but this is taking 2 days out of my life! And I usually work from home on that computer!
Why on Earth would this have happened? Anyone have an idea?
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