On 22/02/2019 20:21, Paul wrote:
user wrote:
On 21/02/2019 15:06, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 2/21/2019 8:37 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?
If your PC has actual wired ports available for Keyboard and Mouse,
NOT USB, then find an old keyboard and mouse and see if that gets you
in.
If that works start looking at deleting and reinstalling the USB
drivers.

It sounds like the USB drivers are messed up and keeping you out.
Doing a repair from an already running but bad system can get your
operating system into this kind of state,.

An alternative to the old style keyboard, and probably better, would
be to boot from a Windows 10 install DVD or Flash install and do
another repair install.Â* With luck that will force the loading of
fresh USB drivers from the DVD or flash drive and get you back into
the system.

I have a PC with the same issue, it gets to the lock screen and is
stuck because the USB ports aren't working, probably due to windows
update.

Booting with another OS is fine, so what is needed is a method of
removing the offending driver files, does anyone know which these are?

John.


In Windows 10, the OS uses Microsoft driver files for USB.
This would be usbport and friends. The drivers aren't proprietary
ones. Even an "Intel driver" merely has "#include usbport"
in it, meaning the Intel driver just calls the MS installer
to do the real work. The Microsoft drivers include "quirks",
issues with known devices, and that's the main value. USB
hardware has standard registers, which is supposed to standardize
the behavior.

If you had System Restore enabled (System Protection from the
System control panel), then in Safe Mode you could roll back
to the previous point in time. After each OS Upgrade, the OS
tends to turn that off. That means when 1809 installed,
you'd have to use the System control panel to turn it
back on.

You can remove packages when using an emergency boot CD or
when booting the installer DVD and looking for Command Prompt
in the Troubleshooting section.

Â*Â* DISM /image:c:\ /remove-package /packagename: etc. command.

Maybe you'd have to look at "WindowsUpdate.log" in the offline
image, to figure out what last items came in. The file contains
a lot of garbage, so this isn't as easy as it sounds.

In your Windows 10 settings, you can disable driver updates.
That's the easiest way to avoid actual driver damage caused
by Windows Update. I probably have that turned on in at least
one install here.

Is any of this easy ? No.

From your emergency CD, you could look for "Reset or Refresh".
You'd want Refresh at a guess. But if you look at a sample article,
this should scare you, because while it preserves personal files,
it removes applications. The thing is, if you do something
like this in an offline state, there's no reason to expect
to be able to do the equivalent of a "Repair Install". You can
only do a Repair Install, keeping personal files *and* programs,
from a running OS (online state). Which in your case, is broken
at this point.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

I would say the situation is ripe for experimentation.

Boot your Macrium Emergency CD and make a backup image of the entire
drive with C: on it. Then, have your way with the machine. If
it ends up "more broken than before", simply restore from Macrium
and try again. A Macrium image, allows "mounting" the partitions
inside a backup image. That allows retrieval of your personal
files from C:\users\UserName, without a lot of hair loss.

Â*Â* PaulÂ* ("I have ideas... but they're not Good Ideas")
Hi Paul,

Thanks for that, it's roughly what I thought.

I reckon the bets approach would be to add an SSD and install a fresh
copy of windows to that.

The PC will end up being more responsive and the user will still have
all their files.

Best,

John