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How To Perform A Windows 10 Clean Boot

The document provides steps to perform a clean boot of Windows 10 to troubleshoot software conflicts. It involves using msconfig to hide all Microsoft services and disable startup programs and non-Microsoft services. If the problem persists in clean boot, the user can re-enable halves of the non-Microsoft services to narrow down the conflicting software. Once found, the user can enable everything except the conflicting software to get the system back to normal functioning.

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How To Perform A Windows 10 Clean Boot

The document provides steps to perform a clean boot of Windows 10 to troubleshoot software conflicts. It involves using msconfig to hide all Microsoft services and disable startup programs and non-Microsoft services. If the problem persists in clean boot, the user can re-enable halves of the non-Microsoft services to narrow down the conflicting software. Once found, the user can enable everything except the conflicting software to get the system back to normal functioning.

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How to perform a Windows 10 clean boot

Ready to clean boot Windows 10? Here are the steps involved.

1. Right-click the Start button.


2. Click Search.

3. Type msconfig and hit Enter on your keyboard.


4. Click Services.
5. Click the checkbox next to Hide all Microsoft services.
6. Click Disable all.
7. Click Startup.
8. Click Open Task Manager.

9. Click any startup program you suspect might be interfering.


10. Click Disable. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for all startup
programs.
11. Click the X to close Task Manager.
12. Click OK in the System Configuration window.
13. Restart your PC.
Once your PC restarts, only the essentials will boot. If you
were having issues with a program or update, try to launch or
install while in the clean boot environment. If the problem
persists, you'll know that you don't have a software conflict
and the problem lies elsewhere.

If the problem doesn't show up while in a clean boot, you can


now attempt to find the offending program or service. The best
way to do so is to repeat steps 1-5 above, but re-enable half of
the services.
Re-enable the top half of all non-Microsoft services (anything
crucial to Windows should be hidden by step 5). Once you
restart your PC, test to see if the software conflict is back. If it
isn't, repeat steps 1-5 again, but this time try re-enabling the
bottom half of all non-Microsoft services instead. Restart your
PC, and if the conflict is back, you'll know that the problem lies
with one of the services in the lower half.

Whether the conflict lies in the top half or the bottom half of
the services, you can now start to narrow down the search.
Keep unchecking services and restarting your PC. Once you
find that the issue is gone, you should be able to point directly
at the problem.

Getting back to normal

Once you've performed your clean boot and have rooted out
the problem, you can get your PC back to running normally,
albeit without the service causing problems.

1. Right-click the Start button.


2. Click Search.
3. Type msconfig and hit Enter on your keyboard.
4. Click Services.
5. Click the checkbox next to Hide all Microsoft services.
6. Click Enable all.
7. Click the checkbox next to the offending startup service.
8. Click Startup.

9. Click Open Task Manager.


10. Click a startup program.
11. Click Enable. Repeat steps 10-11 for all startup programs.
12. Click the X to close Task Manager.

13. Click OK in the System Configuration window.


14. Click Restart.

Your PC should now restart and function as it should, albeit


without the service causing a conflict.

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