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You’re swimming in the ocean at this point, if you’re touching our blog, you are troubleshooting a toaster. You know your computer is a toaster when you’re taking pictures with your phone and uploading them to a blog. Screenshots are hard to do with toasters.

While creating the dev3lop | Consulting Services blog, one of our machines decided to break, and we decided to keep that blog available because a lot of people run into this problem. We have a few different blogs and links to click below that will help you with the next steps too.

Welcome to a boring blog about a boring problem resetting your PC and then your Windows 10.

A lot is wrong in the world of windows 10 for our computers.

Our problem;

  • Our computer is auto closing windows updates and we have no idea why.
  • After more research I found there’s very few blogs teaching people how to move the needle.

We recommend you;

  1. backup what you can backup.
  2. don’t worry about making changes if you have a backup.
  3. contact a professional if you are unable to backup the files you need.
  4. consider re-installing windows.

Problem Resetting Your PC, is it your PC?

Knowing your permissions on the machine is key.

If it’s not your machine, it’s not yours to fix.

You will need system admin privileges.

If you’re at work – contact IT people for assistance.

IT will have a document, procedure, and governance around making fixing computers.

If you’re using a personal device and it’s up to you to solve the problem, let’s begin.

Before we start discussing safe safe mode; what else do you notice? What have you changed recently? What could be the problem with your windows 10 machine that’s outside of the scope of these bugs?

Have you made it far enough that you’re seeing other strange errors?

Blue screens? Safe mode not working?

If you’ve made a lot of changes before using this blog, consider those could be the cause of your problems.

Re-installing windows is a good option. Let’s discuss getting to a point of gaining your files first.

Let’s try to get into safe mode. If you’re not able to backup anything, safe mode may be a good alternative.

End of the story, we will want to reformat, re-install, etc.

Is Windows 10 Safe Mode Not Working?

(Safe mode may not work if you’re computer is toast. But have no fear, we have more options below.)

Okay don’t get too mad, Windows 10 is new-ish and Safe mode?

When has “safe mode” been a good phrase.

Something is happening that’s probably our fault. Usually, it’s always our fault, right?

We need to reset our computer because it won’t start regularly.

Let me go ahead and lay out the environment to ensure we are on the same page.

Error 1084 windows logo

My get out of jail free card supplied by Microsoft Developers has to lead me to a new blue screen of death.

We did this because our MSI gaming laptop was auto closing the windows update in safe mode and our fear was it needs to be reformatted completely.

Problem Resetting PC and need to Reformat?

Necessary steps: Before you start down the path of diving into the Resetting PC problem. Please take a backup of anything important on this computer before moving forward.

System restores, Windows 10 safe mode fun (how to do it), and how to open your Services to enable your windows updating the app.

Learn about System Restore..

The more you change, the harder it will be to succeed with making changes to your windows machine.

System Restore – a method to fix software related problems on windows.

The next two blogs will help you work towards a system restore.

Step 1;

Step 2;

Step 3;

Worst case scenario, you’re in safe mode, grab a flash drive and grab the important material… You could have a dirty fan! Luckily the ‘overheated fan’ and ‘all of this fun stuff above’ are hyper-productively the same error codes.

problem resetting PC, leo dicaprio laughs it off
You thought you were going to get busy working today until you had a problem resetting your PC. Don’t throw out the computer just yet!

Need further assistance resetting your PC?

If you’re still having trouble, give your local IT shop a call, contact us, or…

Craigslist is home to “we come to you” IT professionals who can help you 1 on 1, and it may require a deep clean if it’s been more than one year since you cleaned your machine.

A Problem Resetting ones PC could be from not spraying the fans with compressed air, and it may be because you dropped your computer.

It’s important to note; re-installing windows will not help if your fan isn’t spinning and your computer is overheating. That’s why it’s important to keep going, using the other blogs we have setup here.

And if you’re not using spyware, it’s probably a virus, a big fat virus.

Backup and reformat.

Still having problems resetting PC?

Are you still having problems resetting after these steps & the follow on blogs?

So were we! It never ended until we re-installed Windows… This starts to feel like a never ending bug, below are some clicks that will help you move forward.

But if you’re like us, we don’t want to reset to default, we want to grind this out and see how far the rabbit hole goes.

The next blog will help you if you’re getting the same error as we are at this point, Error 1084

Starting windows in advanced mode may be the next step too.

Dev3lop is here to assist you with any extra help, we mostly focus on tableau consulting, and related consulting services, however we have supported IT related tickets too. Contact us to begin an inquery.

A Boring Problem Resetting Your PC – Windows 10 Safe Mode
Typical Tuesdays when you can not reset you PC. An undocumented error from the Googles of it. Microsoft ‘delete everything and reset’ has a new blue screen buddy. What am I going to do with my week now. The computer is not working. Thanks!

Tips: don’t travel with your laptops if you don’t want your laptops to break. Buy a cheaper more durable laptop for travel ONLY and keep your important files in the cloud to ensure you never miss them. We use google drive to keep files secure, and we also keep our different applications, websites, and files stored separately from each other to ensure if 1 thing fails everything doesn’t fail.

Best of luck as you to continue to hack away at this bug.