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Curtis:
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 (Windows 7 upgraded to Win 10 a couple months ago).  Since I stopped a couple processes from running in Task Mgr (Message Control Plus, Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant), on startup I get a screen with Windows logo and circling dots under it (wait symbol), then the screen goes blank and I get a black screen with the circling dots.  I let it run like this for 2 hours and it just stayed on this screen.  I followed the procedures and ran Tweaking (attached) but no change. Sometimes, but not always I can press F5 while booting and get to Safe Mode and I think it actually booted correctly with F5 once or twice.  Sometimes I can get it to boot normally when pressing F8 during bootup.  When Safe Mode opens I get an error message "Get Started can't be opened by the Built-In Administrator account.  Sign in with a different account." Another error message often occurs at this point, "Windows Security Center can't be started."
One other thing, not long before this problem began I installed drivers, help, support, etc. for an HP wifi printer. I have since uninstalled it with no benfit.

Boggin:
Boot up into Safe Mode with Networking - you will need to Ethernet connect to have an Internet connection - and check to see if you have any restore points and then use one to go back to before the error if there are any.

If you don't then open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter -

dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth

If that reports that the OS is repairable then redo that command changing checkhealth with restorehealth

This can appear to hang at 20% but will complete.

Follow that with a sfc /scannow to see if it reports any corruption - if okay then reboot to see if it will boot up.

Ollder:
Mine Win 10 too,
just suddenly prevented to boot except to Safe Mode. Running Tweaking.com repaired the situation but on next restart this returned to Safe Mode. Tweaking.com is processing again, but I don't expect proper correction when not knowing the real problem. What should I check?

Boggin:

--- Quote from: Ollder on October 06, 2016, 02:30:28 am ---Mine Win 10 too,
just suddenly prevented to boot except to Safe Mode. Running Tweaking.com repaired the situation but on next restart this returned to Safe Mode. Tweaking.com is processing again, but I don't expect proper correction when not knowing the real problem. What should I check?

--- End quote ---

Are you saying that your machine only boots into Safe Mode or that you can only boot up to Safe Mode.

If you are saying that the machine always boots to Safe Mode, go Start - type msconfig and press enter.

Under the Boot tab uncheck any boxes below Safe boot then uncheck the box for Safe boot.

Click on Apply - OK and restart.

Ollder:
Sorry my English, said that I could not start to normal mode before running the Tweaking.com repair. And could not start e.g antivirus or install pgms etc. in Safe Mode (!?)... but (feeling so stupid now  :shy:) didn't even try MsConfig. However, seems to work now.
Thanks a lot.

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