Thanks for your input. I tried what might've been that in the Windows Troubleshooter? It found nowt wrong. I'll google startup repair to refresh my memory.Have you tried start up repair?
Thanks Scott. I hate fiddling but I'll investigate that when I'm feeling strong enough (and have the time).Run CMD as admin (right click start icon to bring up list) then type "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth", without the quotes. Note the spaces and also it may hang at 100% but let it run as this isn't actually the completion.
Then again in CMD as admin, type "SFC /SCANNOW".
Thanks for your input. I tried what might've been that in the Windows Troubleshooter? It found nowt wrong. I'll google startup repair to refresh my memory.
Thanks Scott. I hate fiddling but I'll investigate that when I'm feeling strong enough (and have the time).
Just a thought. If your not on version 1903 you could force it to update. Google win 10 media creation tool. The top search is microsoft iso download. Select that and select update this device. It will download the media creation tool. Run that and follow the prompts. Sounds a lot but its easy. Odds are the update version will cure your problem.Thanks guys, I've now tried all those things so I guess that the next gambit is to boot from a usb ...
I just need to rehearse my moves first.
I am on 1903, & that's when the trouble started - see post #1. So I uninstalled the update but the boot problem had become entrenched, so I reinstalled the update again.If your not on version 1903
Sorry. Missed that. Doh!I am on 1903, & that's when the trouble started - see post #1. So I uninstalled the update but the boot problem had become entrenched, so I reinstalled the update again.
I wonder if 'fast start' allows you to start from 'sleep'...An update to this is that the pc now starts ok in one hit, and what made the difference seems to be that I managed to turn off "Fast Start", whatever that is, and which is buried somewhere in all those Windows settings menus.
What this hasn't cured, though, is that the computer won't wake from sleep and has to be powered off and then started from scratch. Aaaargh ... where's my felling axe?
A reasonable guess, though I doubt it since the wake issue was present whilst Fast Start was in its default 'on' condition.I wonder if 'fast start' allows you to start from 'sleep'...
Thanks, I'm off there now ...This article may be of interest
I did update some drivers, esp for the graphics card and my Wacom tablet, but none helped.
I dimly recall that some Windows glitches cure themselves with time - that if they're a 'bug' in the OS they get cured with later updates?
Yes I can turn it off! It goes off at the mains plug every night anyway.
Can I? No. And the issue has been half-solved now, anyway.Can you choose to go back to a point when all was working ok?
Can I? No. And the issue has been half-solved now, anyway.