John Rogers |
08-09-2015 01:56 PM |
Windows 10 Recovery with 8.1 DVD......
The past several days I had been experimenting with making mods to my Windows 10 upgrade and one was the lock/login screen which I hated the images. So I used a utility to change the images to some of our black powder matches and initially there were no issues. Yesterday afternoon the login screen decided not to load but would just flash and go back to the lock screen. Hummmmm, I tried starting in safe mode but the 8.1 and 10 versions are hard if not impossible to catch with either F8 or Shift+F8 so I decided to try my 8.1 DVD to see if the upgrade would roll back or ?????
After booting with the DVD it said "analyzing Windows 10 problems" which really surprised me and the it asked if I wanted to shutdown or troubleshoot so I started looking at troubleshoot options and what did I see.....a choice to roll back to a date three days ago so I selected that and it worked. The PC rebooted and the lock screen/login both are fine!
I had to go through and reset the colors, backgrounds and security settings I had made but all is well now. I have NO IDEA how that worked but it seems Microsoft may have done something okay here. I am doing a recovery point each night at 1:00AM just in case so in case my adventures cause issues in the future. Hope this helps anyone out there using version 10?
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