Infinitely Looping Startup Repair Loop without Reinstalling Windows 7

If you've ever experienced a Startup Repair that continously loops and fails to fix the problem of not being able to load windows, even in safe mode, then you'll know that usually the only way to recover from this when System Restore does not work is to do a clean install of Windows.

Until now.

This tutorial will show you how to use the System Recovery Options provided by Windows to recover your system to a working state so that you don't have to risk losing data by performing a clean install.

Recovering Your System

1. Boot to the System Recovery Options screen.
• If Windows automatically opens Startup Repair, and subsequently fails to fix a problem, you can skip ahead to step 4 below.
2. In the System Recovery Options screen, click Startup Repair:

3. Windows will search for an attempt to repair startup problems:

4. If startup problems could not be repaired, you will receive the message Windows cannot repair this computer automatically. Click View advanced options for system recovery and support:

5. Click View advanced options for system recovery and support, which which bring you back to the main System Recovery Options screen.
6. Click Command Prompt:

7. Command Prompt should open to X:, which is an internal ram disk use by System Repair:

8. Now you need to find your system drive. Depending on how your system is setup, this could be either C: or D:.
1. Type C: and press .
2. Verify that this is your system drive by typing DIR and pressing . If you see the Program Files, Users and Windows folders, then you have found your system drive, and can continue to step 9 below.
3. If the drive is not your system drive, repeat steps I and II above, changing the drive letter to D, E or some other letter until the system drive is located.

9. When you have located your Windows system drive, type CD \windows\system32\config and press :
10. Type DIR and press , and verify that the following files and folders exist in the config folder:
• RegBack (which is a folder)
• DEFAULT
• SAM
• SECURITY
• SOFTWARE
• SYSTEM

11. Type MD mybackup and press  to create a backup folder that you can use incase this procedure does not work as expected.
12. Type copy *.* mybackup and press .
• If Now you need to check if you can use the automatic Windows backups to restore your registry:
1. Type CD RegBack and press  to go to the RegBack folder.
2. Type DIR and press  to view the contents of the folder. All the following files must exist:
• The DEFAULT, SAM and SECURITY files should each be about 262,000 bytes in size.
• The SOFTWARE file should be about 26,000,000 bytes.
• The SYSTEM file should be about 9,900,000 bytes.
• The file sizes presented here are approximate estimations, and may vary depending on your system. If any one of them are 0 bytes, then you should stop what you're doing now and seek an alternative method of recovering your system, because Windows cannot function with a 0-byte size registry hive.
3. If the hive files listed in RegBack are ok, then proceed to step 14 of the tutorial.

13. Type copy *.* .. and press  to copy the backup hive files to \Windows\System32\config.
• If you are prompted to overwrite existing files, press A to allow all file to be overwritten.

14. Type exit and press  to close the command prompt.

15. Click the Restart button to reboot your computer. If all goes well, your system will boot normally.

 From <https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/139576-startup-repair-infinite-loop-recovery.html>

Use Windows 10 Boot Loop Automatic Repair

Windows 10 boot loop automatic repair can appear after several times boot failure. And from there you can do some rescue for Windows 10 reboot loop. Please try the followings:

Step 1. Power off the PC and then power it on. As soon as you see the rotating loading circle, press and hold the Power button to shut it off.

Step 2. Repeat this process a few times until you see the "Preparing Automatic Repair" screen.

Step 3. After "Diagnosing your PC" interface, you will see the "Automatic Repair" screen. Here you need to select "Advanced options".

Step 4. Select "Troubleshoot" -> "Advanced Options" where you get multiple choices.

Step 5. Select "Command Prompt" and continue running the following command lines:

• c: (Note that you system drive may be different. You will have to figure it out by yourself by viewing the directory.)
• dir
• cd \windows\system32\config
• MD backup
• copy *.* backup
• CD regback
• dir
• copy *.* ..
• A
• Exit

 When you get back to "Choose an option", click "Continue (exit and continue to Windows 10)" and see if Windows 10 continuous reboot ends.

From <https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/windows-10-reboot-loop.html>

 Source From Internet

How to disable the ‘Enter Network Password’ prompt.- Windows 7

SOLUTION:

a) Open Control Panel and ‘System and Security’ then click on ‘Administrative Tools’ and ‘Local Security Policy’.

b) Expand ‘Local Policies’ and select ‘Security Options’.

c) Double-click on ‘Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts’, choose Guest only option from drop down menu and click OK.

d) Double-click on ‘Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only’, which is enabled by default. Disable this option and click OK.


At the same time you may want to disable password protected sharing as well
thats Control Panel - Network and Internet - Homegroup - Change advenced sharing settings -
Password protected sharing choose to turn off save changes

Gmail login attempt failed when using desktop mail client

Solution : Allowing less secure apps to access your account

Google may block sign-in attempts from some apps or devices that do not use modern security standards. Since these apps and devices are easier to break into, blocking them helps keep your account safe.

Some examples of apps that do not support the latest security standards include:

Some Desktop mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and  Dreammail.

Change account access for less secure apps

To help keep Google Apps users' accounts secure, we may block less secure apps from accessing Google Apps accounts. As a Google Apps user, you will see a "Password incorrect" error when trying to sign in. If this is the case, you have two options:

Option 1: Upgrade to a more secure app that uses the most up to date security measures. All Google products, like Gmail, use the latest security measures.

Option 2: Change your settings to allow less secure apps to access your account.

Go to the "Sign in & Security" section in My Account, Then in Password & Sign-in Method - Turn Off 2 step verification.

How to get a Better Windows File Manager

There are plenty of alternate file managers available, both commercial and free. A selection of the best free ones is discussed in this Gizmo review and one of the favorites is Multi Commander.

Fix: WiFi gets disconnected after Sleep in Windows 8 / 10

The way to fix the issue of WiFi getting disconnected after you resume from Sleep mode. If you’re connected to a WiFi network and you move your system into sleep mode, after waking up, the system loose the WiFi network connectivity.



WiFi gets disconnected or does not automatically reconnect
Using Device Manager

1. Press Windows Key + R and type devmgmt.msc in the Run dialog box to open Device Manager.

2. In the Device Manager window, expand Network Adapters and look for your WiFi driver, do a right click over it, selectProperties.




3. In the property sheet, switch to Power Management tab and uncheck the option Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. Click OK.

The dependency service or group failed to start - Windows 7

Symptom: No internet access with an unknown connection status and the Network and Sharing displaying the following message:

*** The dependency service or group failed to start ***

Other symptoms may include:
- A red "X" on the network connection icon
- Connection status staes limited access (cannor connect to the internet)

Solution;
1. Go to the "Start Menu" and search for the "Command Prompt"
2. Right-Click on Command Prompt and Run as administrator
3. Type the following commands (pressing after each line)

Type:   net localgroup Administrators /add networkservice
            net localgroup Administrators /add localservice

4. Restart

USB DRIVE NOT ACESSIBLE, ACCESS DENIED - WINDOWS XP

Problem: I was able to access my usb drive in safe mode but not in normal start up.

Solution: Just open msconfig.exe. Click on the services tab. Click the box...Hide all Microsoft services. click on disable all. OK out and restart. check the drive accessafter you restart. If it works, you can enable one or a few services at a time to figure out which one is causing the problem.