Dick wrote:
On 2/21/2019 9:37 AM, Freelance Writer wrote:
Two days ago Windows 10 just stopped booting.
It would constantly say it needed a repair.

I ran the light blue screen repair without needing the DVD.
But now it boots to the pretty scenery without ANY way of logging in.

I curse that scenery.

It's stuck at that ocean scenery with NOTHING I can do.
I can press every key on the keyboard and move the mouse.

It's completely unresponsive.
It's not hardware as it boots to an older OS.

Any advice?

I've noticed recently that I have encountered the same thing: can't get
to login screen. The way I have found to get around it is to do a
crtl-alt-del and the login pops up. Hope this helps...

In some older version of Windows, it was possible to
purposely set up that option as a policy. Namely, to
require the pressing of ctrl-alt-delete before entering
login information. It had something to do with session
hijacking, but how an exploit could make hay out of that
at bootup time is a mystery (unless a Startup program
were able to run, before the login prompt - does it
work like that?).

Example:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/secur...lt-del-windows

Paul