So...where to begin...
I bought an Asus laptop from my friend a while ago, used laptop (3 months old), with installed and activated Windows 8.1...
Everything was working fine, the apps, the store, all good.
So, I pay him, he gives me the laptop and before that deletes his user account (before I could create mine), and that's when all hell broke lose.
I didn't notice anything (first time on Windows 8), utill I saw that all of the apps (that were working just fine before he deleted his account) have a little "error" next to them. Now I've Googled the solution and when I tried to apply it and go to PC Settings (that gibberish new UI they've put it),
it also crashed right to desktop...well minimized, not crashed, and every time I've tried to maximize it, it just did the same thing.
After spending 8+ hours on Windows support forums, doing all that checks, cmd stuff and basically every solution out there, nothing helped...so I found a way to create a new user account, bypassing the PC Settings, aaaand that didn't solve the problem either...I've uninstalled all the apps, including the store, since they are basically useless, and I still can't find the fix.....
It started when he deleted the only account (his), before I created mine, and I suspect that that did something to mess up my system...
Now comes the tricky part, I'm not the type of guy to go around and try to fix the unfix-able, and I know what is the easiest way to fix it - clean install of Windows....here's the plot twist - no DVD reader (no Windows DVD either, or .iso)...I am avoiding USB boot since that has been the biggest trouble to do with Windows (tried it on my old desktop with friends legi .iso on USB, and got nothing but a gazillion errors)....and it seems that my laptop boots too fast for me to enter boot menu or bios (it boots in literally 2 seconds), F1, F2, F12 (or any other F key doesn't do it, tried it all), delete also does nothing...
So here I am, hoping that not all is lost, I am hoping that Win10 upgrade will fix this somehow, but here I am, pleading for help on this....I'll do my best to post any other info you need, I just want to resolve this and get on with my life....thanks guys
I bought an Asus laptop from my friend a while ago, used laptop (3 months old), with installed and activated Windows 8.1...
Everything was working fine, the apps, the store, all good.
So, I pay him, he gives me the laptop and before that deletes his user account (before I could create mine), and that's when all hell broke lose.
I didn't notice anything (first time on Windows 8), utill I saw that all of the apps (that were working just fine before he deleted his account) have a little "error" next to them. Now I've Googled the solution and when I tried to apply it and go to PC Settings (that gibberish new UI they've put it),
it also crashed right to desktop...well minimized, not crashed, and every time I've tried to maximize it, it just did the same thing.
After spending 8+ hours on Windows support forums, doing all that checks, cmd stuff and basically every solution out there, nothing helped...so I found a way to create a new user account, bypassing the PC Settings, aaaand that didn't solve the problem either...I've uninstalled all the apps, including the store, since they are basically useless, and I still can't find the fix.....
It started when he deleted the only account (his), before I created mine, and I suspect that that did something to mess up my system...
Now comes the tricky part, I'm not the type of guy to go around and try to fix the unfix-able, and I know what is the easiest way to fix it - clean install of Windows....here's the plot twist - no DVD reader (no Windows DVD either, or .iso)...I am avoiding USB boot since that has been the biggest trouble to do with Windows (tried it on my old desktop with friends legi .iso on USB, and got nothing but a gazillion errors)....and it seems that my laptop boots too fast for me to enter boot menu or bios (it boots in literally 2 seconds), F1, F2, F12 (or any other F key doesn't do it, tried it all), delete also does nothing...
So here I am, hoping that not all is lost, I am hoping that Win10 upgrade will fix this somehow, but here I am, pleading for help on this....I'll do my best to post any other info you need, I just want to resolve this and get on with my life....thanks guys