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Win 8.1 does not remember last user after reboot - [Solved]
JohnCoool:
I deliberately disabled safe mode a long time ago. Not sure is that was the cause for it. I don't care about it. However, I am concerned that clean boot is no longer working.
I think the two are related and that is why I am trying to resolve it now. I don't think it was corrupted the old Image because I did not use the logo editor until recently. I will do some tests later on.
A restore point was created yesterday during one of things I was reinstalling and I went back to it successfully but the safe mode list is still skipped over.....
JohnCoool:
I will suspend updates here until I have some progress because I don't like the feedback.
Nothing is going to deter me from doing this.
Boggin:
I can't help it you don't like the feedback - I'm just telling it the way I see it.
If you disabled Safe Mode a while back then the system image you created a couple of months back won't help.
I suggest you restore with that to see what you have and then you can decide if you need to perform a repair install.
After all, you had asked about two other extreme measures of a Refresh and a Reset - a repair install is a lot easier and not destructive to what you have installed.
Anyway, it's not my machine that has problems and it's up to you whether you take any of my advice or not - I would have repair installed straight away, but why did you disable Safe Mode in the first place when it's such an useful repair or diagnostic mode.
As former IT support, surely you must have known the value of Safe Mode.
JohnCoool:
Yes I did disable it but it still worked. This is something new. It is now corrupted.
That is the reason I keep image backups. In-case HDD fails. So that I don't start from scratch.
I asked about the two other solutions because I thought one of the was just repair. I forgot what I did before 2018...
It seems that I am just going in circles. Even though it is now showing errors anymore I am not sure that it fixed them...
I think the reason it is skipping over the boot menu is because I deleted it by mistake. After I tried that safe boot option I showed you in the link I deleted that entry and I think it deleted it all.
I tried to find an option called repair but all I could find was options to refresh or repair, even in the boot media I created.
How is it done? Do I run it from within windows?
What are the risks? Will my system become less stable?
Is there a video I can see about it? I could not locate it on youtube...
Please stop repeating things. I am a perfectionist. I know exactly what I am doing I don't need you or anyone to 2nd guess my work.
You cannot supersede me in my own things.... No one can
Boggin:
So what exactly are you asking for now ?
I've already described how to perform a repair install and the benefits it has.
I've even linked an article on it.
You say you are a perfectionist, but from what you have described you have done, you have damaged your system.
If you do perform a repair install then I suggest you leave the patches alone and leave the system as is.
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