Category: startup

Repair a Non-Booting PC with a USB Recovery Drive

If you find that your PC isn’t booting to the desktop this doesn’t mean that it’s unrecoverable. It’s possible that something such as a hardware driver or Windows Update has caused the system to become unstable. It is possible though to roll back changes made…

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Quickly Repair a Non-Booting PC

Sometimes there’s some error that occurs during an update or shutdown operation that corrupts something on the PC such as your user account. The upshot is that the next time you start the PC, you get an error and it won’t let you get to…

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How to Repair a Corrupt User Account

Sometimes you might find that the user account on your PC has become corrupt and you can’t sign into the PC. This can be a problem, but it doesn’t mean that you’re locked out forever. If you have a second account on the PC (it…

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Manage and Troubleshoot Windows Startup with Autoruns

Managing Startup apps and programs on a PC is useful, but what do you do if you suspect that a startup service, codec, driver, task, or Registry item is causing a problem or a slow-down, or if malware might have infected the PC. This is…

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