Robert in CA wrote:
OK if it worked then why did I loose the normal logon ?

You won't believe this because I don't but the #3 hung up on
me when I was in Word. I also had the Patriot Key attached
so I could save files without loosing them and that also hung
up.

When I clicked it to removed safely the message never popped
up to say it was OK to remove and I tried several times and
eventually it wouldn't let me click at all. I also noticed that the
drive was grayed out. I opened Task Manager but Word wouldn't
close so I opted to power it down and pulled the Patriot Key.

When it restarted it did give the abnormal shutdown screen but
then went straight to the desktop

https://postimg.cc/jWNbkcWd

It normally goes to the next logon screen where it has a (29)
second countdown (what is that called? MBR????? I just can't
remember)and then the desktop but it's bypassing it and going
straight to the desktop.

So how do we get it to logon 'normally' again without disturbing
the repair and I get the (29) second countdown screen back
(whatever its called) which then loads the desktop.

Robert

You know of two things to use

1) Macrium boot repair
2) bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu True # black-colored boot menu

Paul