having a crap morning, wife has a headache, neigbours didn't pick up a parcel I'd taking in for them on THURSDAY! I popped round and knocked on their door 3 times no answer, came back ranting (what am I a, postie?) they finally pick it up (not doing that again). So I thought I'dd destress with some gaming, oh PC needs to restart does it?....clicks "restart". Get the PSOT beeps for no monitor and so have a balcnk screen while HDD thrashes.....and thrashes......and thrashes for what felt like a millenia, finally PC reboots...I notice I have limited icons in lower right, no nvidia control panel, no AV, no ICUE, warthog lights are off...wut? So I try to manually load ICUE, some guff about Win 10 S.....tried to load firefox to find out what to do, same error message, luckily I noticed something in the error message about getting more info on Win 10 S (by this point a brain anurism was close to occurring, I get stressed easily and my PC is my LIFELINE!), I clidk the link and disable the smeggy Win 10 S, reboot PC and thakfully back to normal......whay the smegging hell did MS make my life a stressed out misery for 30 mins?!!!
Hardware & Technical what the smeg did microsoft just do to me?
- Thread starter Leper Messiah
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At first it sounded like the system detected an error and ran a repair, or Windows Update installed a major patch and/or new drivers that took a few reboots to sort themselves out...
However, on second read, it sounds more like your system was somehow placed in S mode (a secure/slim mode where only Windows Store apps can be run), which normally shouldn't even be possible for after having been run in standard mode. Something could be wrong with your activation/license.
Regardless, I'd start backing up anything critical and checking the system for hardware and software issues.
However, on second read, it sounds more like your system was somehow placed in S mode (a secure/slim mode where only Windows Store apps can be run), which normally shouldn't even be possible for after having been run in standard mode. Something could be wrong with your activation/license.
Regardless, I'd start backing up anything critical and checking the system for hardware and software issues.
Yep, your system got reverted to Win 10 S mode (only apps from the store) as Morbad said...if your OS started as S and you "updated" it to the normal version via the store when you first bought/booted it up, it probably just had a minor hiccup on one of the latest updates and took a while more than usual to re-apply all the user related settings/policies/authorizations/licenses...if your system was never an S from the start, then the hiccup was a bit less minor, it definitely should not turn into S on its own.
Yeah it seems something went because yesterday I had to update PC again and it all went ok (still lost the damn screen though, this HDMI "handshake" crap is a real PITA). Fingers crossed it's ok. I have a 1tb and 3tb back up drives that I back up to regularly so should be ok in a disaster. I just panic, being a social anxiety sufferer I do 99% of my business etc online so NEED my PC to work! Although I do have a smart phone in an emergency for banking etc, but hate the UI (I prefer the mouse/kb to a touchscreen).
Funny that I've never had a problem with any of their products and 10 has been running like a dream since I installed it on four different computers. The only thing I manually update is the Radeon driver once in awhileThis is why I refuse to get windows 10 or allow any automatic updates
Ok fair, windows 10 runs fine/stable in most instances. It just has a laundry list of "features" to turn off everytime I install it somewhere. Microsoft got very nosy with this OS
It's actually never been easier to turn that stuff off than with Windows 10.
Well get a second PC in case of 'Things". because as you stated "I do 99% of my business etc online so NEED my PC to work "
And hurray for backups! One day (sadly) you will remember why you make backups
it took me 7 years of saving to get this PC so apart from my old win 7 machine I don't have a spare or the money for one.
And MS did up with this because all I had to do was press "restart" and let the automatic update do it's thing, which it didn't.... it clearly mucked up with no input from me.
That being said up till that point (from Jan this year) I'd had no issues with win 10.