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Windows 7 boot stuck on Welcome screen
This problem started earlier today - windows restarted after an update and got stuck on the welcome screen following the reboot.
A few other pieces of information:
Safe mode does work.
I have restarted a number of times and twice windows got all the way to my desktop but promptly locked up.
I did not make any major changes to my system before the problem started (installs etc).
So far I have tried:
System restore - a number of restore points going back as far as a week.
Startup repair
Windows memory diagnostic
Does anyone have any advice? I'm starting to panic a little bit here (actually, a whole lot).
I am also not sure how to restore windows if I have to. I never got a disc with my laptop, and it has no optical drive. There is also no recovery partition to access.
UPDATE: Not sure what I did, but now safe mode doesn't work either. Stuck on: Loading Windows Files, please wait...