Groundhog Day Nightmare - Windows 10

[Instathrill]

Hi guys, i have a really weird situation.

So my pc started being funny as in not its usual self. Processes got slower, Games kept alt tabbing themselves to desktop without warning, freezes, crashes that sort of thing. So i looked into what could possibly be wrong like a virus perhaps? so i found out my free Avast wasnt working anymore. I have tried updating, uninstalling/removing the program, downloading other programs to help aid in the removal/cleanup operation, and heres where it gets really weird.

I discovered that my verison of windows 10 is alegedly up to date, but i cannot run Piriform CCleaner as windows 10 doesn't work with CCleaner so the pop up box upon trying to install tells me. My friend runs windows 10 and has no problems with c cleaner on his system. Everytime the computer restarts, reboots, i turn it on from having it turned off, its like it loads me back to the same exact point but with no alert saying this is the case - digital groundhog day.

The programs that "successfully uninstalled" in fact are still there, and programs that i have downloaded are not in the downloads folder.

After going through all this I have tried the windows 10 "salt the earth" protocol and went through the Reset PC function. After the reboot from that action i was given the option to "restart windows 10" or "troubleshoot". I chose the restart windows 10 option to see and expect most of the programs to have disappeared, there was a popup that told me what was going to be removed and a list left on the desktop of everything that would be gone.

Everything was still there, all like i had just booted my computer up on that morning at that exact point. I am really stuck as what i can do to rescue my hardware. If anyone has any suggestions or needs more info from me to help with this problem, I would be ever grateful for you help. If i havent given enough info please please please ask and ill do my best to give you the answers you need, to help me get to the answer i need.

Thank you for you time!

 

[Colif]

i know one thing that would fix it since a full reset doesn't... A fresh install. backup anything off the hdd you want to keep

Download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB << do it on another PC if your PC is being difficult

change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here)

No, I don't know why you stuck in time. Some things not worth working out

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I know for a fact that all versions of Windows 10 works perfectly with CCleaner. I belong to a Windows 10 club and I am a Windows 10 beta tester and there has never been an issue with CCleaner working on all versions of Windows 10, including preview versions.

 

[Colif]

The malicious software tool sometimes sees it as a threat, and if you have Bitdefender installed, it will block ccleaner and malwarebytes from updating themselves.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Yes, as Colif indicated it is not Windows 10 blocking CCleaner, there might be a conflict with other installed software.

 

[gardenman]

When I first updated to Win10 from Win7, I got a message from Windows stating that CCleaner would not work on Windows 10. CCleaner was not set to run at startup so I'm pretty sure it was a message from Windows itself. If I remember correctly, it also didn't copy it from the Windows.old folder to the new Program Files folder either. I had no other security software installed at the time because I removed it all for the upgrade process. I had a really old version of CCleaner and didn't want to update it because of the ads in the newer one. I fixed the problem by updating to a new CCleaner anyway.

I was a bit shocked as I figured MS wouldn't even deal with such minor problems but I guess because of the widespread use of the older CCleaners they really had to tell users (especially after NOT copying the program to the new Windows). The message just simply said it wouldn't work, it didn't even say to upgrade to a newer version.

Instathrill, downloading a new version of CCleaner may help with that problem (if you can download and if you can get the install to be saved).

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Although I never got that message regarding CCleaner, and I have done over 45 clean installs of Windows 10 on at least 2 dozen different computers, I do agree that downloading a new version of CCleaner might fix any problems.