[toremindmewhennot]

Would you kindly help? I'm a mostly non-computer person suffering from windows 10.

 

Background: I've been spiffing the OS up for several months, using popular open source debloat tools, also minimizing telemetry. Windows resists and undoes, back and forth. The laptop ran amazingly eventually, after devising ways to identify and restrain processes that didnt serve. Also postponed an update. At the end of March, inadvertently triggered a restart.

 

Windows now refuses the login password used hundreds of times (and the one before it). I've used a password-free generic admin account alongside AI models to fix but heroic effort has failed. For the first couple dozen hours, Microsoft suppressed wireless (no feasible ethernet). After comprehensively changing hundreds of issues, it still didn't work. Gave up.

But must have files! And laptop!

Came back three days ago. Restored more than half of wireless! (It still says "not connected").

The rules of logic dont allow me to say for certain, but it seems all but: Microsoft presets a war on users waged through Windows that nearly cripples the machine, severely harms users, and forces them to reinstall the OS. (?) There's a tripwire somewhere.

(All signs point to yes.)

It's reasonable to advocate for this hypothesis, also because the models led me to hundreds of changes that needed to be made to security policies, registries, config files...

Once wireless was restored, i created a new password on the company's website that should have worked – and now the Administrator account has been deprived of command prompt, powershell, regedit, services, security policies, event log, and, like, anything...

And nothing!

I found this site — hey hey, fellow Geeks! — by searching for one of the common errors:

"The service cannot accept control messages at this time." This comes up for task manager, services, powershell, renaming / new folder, etc.

 

The errors don't pop up immediately; the one I timed took exactly eight minutes. 

 

"The service did not start due to a logon failure" (sometimes alongside "Your system admin has blocked you from running this program") forbids

command manager, regedit.exe, component services, mmc.exe, computer management, device manager, wf.msc. 

Trying to open anything windows defenderesque is odd. From the control panel, I get 'you'll need a new link to open this windowsdefender link.' 

 

Theres a third category of links that produce no graphical response, including the "Activate Windows" that became relevant after restoring wireless. (Its a surface laptop bought directly from microsoft.) I also recall some notes about dependencies (before I started taking notes).

 

Windows has been unstable, but it is very likely not directly due to limiting undesirable processes. a few unintended consequences from de-bloating and minimizing telemetry are conceivable, but I've been cautious, only limiting parental control-type junk.

 

This horrendous, systemic crippling is at least known to Microsoft, which has chosen to neglect its duty to fix, not to obstruct our ability to use our property. the all-but complete orchestration suggests the company has been note active.

In any event,

 

Would you please help me regain access to the account?

 

tried to install FRST64.exe but "the system cannot accept control messages at this time." (Another common refrain.)

 

I would be sooooooo grateful!

 

Can you explain what's happened and devise a means of circumventing / fixing?

 

If you're reading this, THANKS!

 

The language in this message is a bit irreverant, but the truth is that i'm desperate, humble, and plead for your wisdom. It would be difficult to convey the lifelong harms that have been caused. "Repair" might work, but I'd like my files. (Cloud leaves very very much to be desired; it's like once they dissect all of what we've created, they have no use for it.) I also don't want to go back to a surveillance-rich OS, and dont (yet) know ubuntu / linux options.

 

Whats happened? And what can be done? Have you heard of anything like this before?

 

Ill check back. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to provide more info. Thanks again!!