Windows 10, despite all the assurances of developers about the versatility of the system, as well as its predecessor, is not immune from the emergence of critical failures. One of the most unpleasant is the appearance of an endless boot of Windows 10 with the issuance of some messages, the appearance of blue screens or without it. What is the reason for this behavior of the system and how to fix the problem, then we’ll try to figure it out.
Why does Windows 10 endlessly appear?
Alas, to say exactly why the operating system falls into a cyclic reboot is immediately impossible.
Of course, in the event of a failure message or an indication of failed components in the description attached to the blue screen, you can partially guess what caused a constant restart. However, the most common reasons that the endless loading of Windows 10 starts again and again are considered to be hardware problems (hardware failures), damage to the bootloader system components, problems installing the latest updates, etc. It is possible that such behavior of the system could affect the problems with the "Update Center" itself. Also, sometimes a cyclic restart can be triggered by incorrectly installed user applications (most often in the form of pirated copies or unofficial assemblies) and even a virus exposure.
What to do in case of hardware failure?
To begin with, we will consider the hardware failures associated with the incorrect functioning of the installed equipment, as a result of which a blue screen first appears, in which there is usually a description of a failed driver, and then the Windows 10 computer starts to endlessly boot. In this situation, the main culprits are the hard drive, RAM and a video card. To troubleshoot, first of all, check the tightness of the connection of all the hard drive loops, as well as the correct installation of the graphics adapter or memory strips on the motherboard. If visual inspection does not work, try to remove the RAM strips one at a time, turning on the computer again each time. If at one moment the download goes fine, the bad bar will have to be replaced. If you have bootable media with programs like TestDisk for checking your hard drive, Memtest86 + for testing RAM, or similar utilities, do a full scan of these components using them. This will accurately identify the cause of the failure.
How to fix the endless boot of Windows 10 when you turn on the computer in the simplest way?
But practice shows that the greatest number of such situations can be triggered by damage to important system components. In the case of an endless boot of Windows 10, forcibly turn off the computer or laptop and then turn it on to activate the start of the automated recovery tool. It is quite possible that switching off and on will have to be done several times. When the rollback starts, the system (unless critical damage is detected in it) will be restored. However, it is often not necessary to rely on such actions, because when you try to restore, you still get a message that the computer was loaded incorrectly.
In this situation, you should not immediately press the restart button. If there is an active button for additional parameters nearby, use it, and then try to download the latest successful configuration or enter safe mode. After that, it will be possible to eliminate some problems.
What if the recovery environment does not boot?
If the start in Safe Mode was successful, go to the configuration settings (msconfig) and set either a diagnostic start using the general tab, or on the boot tab, set the safe mode settings using either minimal configuration or restoring Active Directory.
You can start the recovery environment from the command line by writing the command “reagent.exe / enable”, but with encryption of the system partition turned on, it may not work, so you will first need to deactivate Bitlocker using the corresponding section in the “Control Panel”.
Troubleshoot system startup
When using the blue con with the choice of additional parameters mentioned above, you can try to get rid of the system going into a cyclic restart using the restore point at boot, which is available in the list after selecting the diagnostic.
It is possible that problems will be identified and resolved automatically.
Bootloader recovery and update management
In case of damage to the bootloader, which is most often observed, none of the above result will give. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you boot from removable media with the distribution kit or using LiveCD, call the command line, and then use the Bootrec.exe tool, adding a “/ FixMbr” attribute and then “/ FixBoot” (without quotes) through a space.
If the problem is not resolved during restart, you will have to completely overwrite the bootloader, adding the “/ RebuildBCD” attribute to the main command, then restart the system in normal or safe mode again.
Since very often there is an endless download after updating Windows 10, the most reasonable solution is to remove them. To do this, if possible, it is better to use Safe Mode, go to the programs and components section in the Control Panel, and then remove the last installed packages from the installed updates section one by one.
Note: you do not need to delete everything. It is enough to uninstall the packages one at a time, checking the system’s operability after restarting, and when a failed update is found, when you search for updates again in manual mode, you will need to remove it from the installation list. Also, for such purposes, you can use a utility from Microsoft called Show or hide updates.
But it also happens that the system seems to be working, but updates are not installed. The endless download of Windows 10 updates is almost always associated with problems of the "Update Center" itself. First, look at the startup type of this service in the corresponding section (services.msc).
Active should be the service of the "Update Center", delivery optimization, the installer of the Windows modules and the Windows installer. If a component is not active, start it in the parameter editing window, and in the start type, set the value to automatic start.
You can also use the command line launched as administrator to restart the problems with restarting the update service. First, the “net stop wuauserv” and “sc config wuauserv start = disabled” commands are executed, then a full reboot follows, and then the “net start wuauserv” and “sc config wuauserv start = auto” commands are activated. If this approach does not work, try searching for an automatic solution in the "Troubleshooting Center" by calling it from the "Control Panel".
Failure to start installed programs
Sometimes the problem may not be in the system, but in the installed program. For example, Windows 10 is endlessly booted with NFS Underground 2. In other words, the installed game itself provokes a crash. Apparently, this happens only because a pirated version is not installed official. To fix the problem, you need to download the official release or at least replace the executable file for starting the game speed.exe with the original one. Also, some experts recommend launching the game in compatibility mode with versions of Windows below the tenth (if possible, even XP, and if this option is not available, then using the previous system modification).
What could be more?
Finally, do not be too lazy to write some bootable anti-virus like Kaspersky Recue Disk onto removable media, boot from it and perform an in-depth scan of the computer, marking all that is in the list of items to be scanned. Perhaps the problems with loading the system were connected precisely with viruses that entered the computer.