No icons on desktop and no response

Dazstoke · 16 Apr 2020 at 10:32

Turned on pc this morning and it ran through some disk repairs before booting.
Went past login screen as usual, windows background screen loaded and that's as far as it's got.No icons and start menu not responding.
Tried to boot into safe mode with F8 but that just takes me into the bios.

I have a vague recollection of windows updating when I turned the machine off yesterday.
I don't have a Windows 10 disc.

What do I do now ?

Mcnumpty2323 · 16 Apr 2020 at 10:40

Keep powering it off by holding down the on/off button
After 3 or 4 times it should force recovery options to appear
Getting the blank desktop stuff here too
Though only if I leave pc on but idle for a while
Very frustrating

Dazstoke · 16 Apr 2020 at 13:22

I had tried that but I don't think I tried enough times or didn't leave it long enough but anyway got in.....windows attempted repairs,didn't work.I uninstalled quality update,didn't work....it wouldn't let me uninstall feature updates.
Finally I did a system restore.....there were 2 programs that would roll back,Opera and Adobe,may be 1 of these was causing the problem ?
Now it's loaded and working....for how long I don't know lol
Cheers mate

Mcnumpty2323 · 16 Apr 2020 at 13:38

Pretty likely to have been caused by a windows update
Their updates lately have caused all sorts of issues
Luckily I have image backups
3 minutes to load one

chili · 19 Apr 2020 at 22:18

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Pretty likely to have been caused by a windows update
Their updates lately have caused all sorts of issues
Luckily I have image backups
3 minutes to load one

what do you use to make your image backups?

Mcnumpty2323 · 19 Apr 2020 at 22:21

chili said:
what do you use to make your image backups?

Macrium
Though I am loading them from and to a fast M2 drive so 3 minutes for 40gb restore