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rtc917:
I dl'd Still_Game's recommendation for Safe Boot, selected boot in "Normal" mode and, wonder of wonders, my system now appears to be functioning normally. Yay! I created a current restore point and will certainly save Safe Boot, as clearly it is a useful and effective tool. I currently am running 1803. Would you recommend that I update my system to 1809 and create a new restore point then or wait on 1809 as it appears as if it may be buggy? Is there anything else I should do?

Thank you very much for your support and assistance in all of this!

Boggin:
That's good news that Still_Game's thread helped and confirms the program works.

Unless you get 1809 through Windows Update then I'd leave it on 1803.

I had a problem with one of my 1803 laptops (can't remember now what it was) and updated to 1809 which fixed it but decided to leave this one on 1803.

I reset the 1809 one today and it made no difference to being unable to boot into the advanced boot options from Safe Mode which is one reason to remain on 1803.

I did once upgrade this one to 1809 but restored it with a system image created before the update.

I found that the revert to previous version option didn't take it back to 1803.

The bcdedit cmd still didn't work either.

I create regular Macrium system images onto external HDDs so I'm covered should anything untoward happen and I always create a Macrium image prior to test running any new Windows Repair program versions.

rtc917:
I found that bcdedit doesn't work on my 1803 either. Fortunately the Safe Boot program did work. I think I'll leave my current configuration in place, at least for now. I'm going to look into Macrium. Thanks again!

Boggin:
You're welcome :)

I use Macrium Relect Free.

Still_Game:

--- Quote from: rtc917 on March 07, 2019, 11:00:47 am ---I dl'd Still_Game's recommendation for Safe Boot, selected boot in "Normal" mode and, wonder of wonders, my system now appears to be functioning normally. Yay! I created a current restore point and will certainly save Safe Boot, as clearly it is a useful and effective tool. I currently am running 1803. Would you recommend that I update my system to 1809 and create a new restore point then or wait on 1809 as it appears as if it may be buggy? Is there anything else I should do?

Thank you very much for your support and assistance in all of this!

--- End quote ---

Glad that Safe Boot worked for you. I've been aware of the utility for a while but never had occasion to use it as my Windows 7 laptop pops in and out of Safe Mode nicely when needed.

I'm not looking forward to my eventual move to Windows 10 - apart from the fact that neither my Samsung laser printer nor Canon scanner will work with it and I've no other reason to ditch a perfectly functioning Lenovo apart from Windows 7 reaching EOL next year, I'm not convinced about its reliability from one release to the all too frequent next. Linux? Doesn't handle the software I rely on. Apple? Too expensive and restrictive for me.

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