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Mike Halsey, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0925-7_13

13. Repairing Windows Startup Problems

Mike Halsey

(1)Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

In Chapter 8, I showed you how you can use the tools and utilities available in Windows 10 to troubleshoot startup problems. But what happens if Windows cannot be easily or automatically repaired? If you can’t get your copy of Windows 10 to boot to the desktop then you can’t get any work done at all.

The normal response to a nonbootable copy of Windows is either to reimage the PC, which will inevitably result in huge numbers of Windows updates and app updates needing to be installed… perhaps before you can begin work. Alternatively, you might be faced with completely ...

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