I am very reticent to restart the computer at the moment, though I imagine I will have to eventually. It said that if the fix was successful, Windows would load normally. This one worked! It ran a little program saying it was attempting to repair Windows Startup, then said to click Finish to restart the computer. I was hoping this would fix the issue with minimal impact on the system, but again had compatibility concerns since it also displayed a Win7 startup display. So then I selected the HP recovery option to fix Windows Startup. I suspect it was looking for Win7 restore points. In this mode, it said it could not see that there had been any restore points set, even though I believe I have seen Windows Update create restore points. Well, this time I started out by trying to run a system restore. I was concerned that any tools they had in there would not be compatible with Windows 10. I had been wary of this, since on an earlier occasion I noted that after loading Windows 10, when I used F11 from the HP screen, it appeared to be starting up Windows 7. I finally decided to try pressing F11 for the HP System Recovery when the HP startup splash screen came on. OK - finally got into a utility that fixed the issue. If I do have to reformat and lose everything, or if I have to pay a repair shop to restore it, I guarantee the next computer I buy (and all those I get down the road) will have a fruit with a bite out of it featured prominently on it. As soon as Win10 starts running, it just stops seeing that my keyboard is there at all, so F8 and/or Shift-F8 have no effect - Windows never sees any input device is there from the time it starts its automatic "repair". I cannot get Win10 to go into safe mode from this configuration. I am also going to be very very annoyed if I have to go buy an OS disk, reformat and lose the 20,000 pictures I have stored, It's an HP Pavilion (I can't read the model number right now, it is about four years old), has a quad-core processor. Note that I loaded Win10 from the download and this computer didn't come with OS disks for Win7, so I have no DVD to boot from. When I manually power the computer off and back on, Windows says it's starting an automatic repair, then brings up the choose my keyboard layout page again. This morning, I wake up and it is showing a screen that asks me to choose my keyboard layout which does not respond to any input devices. Went to bed last night and Windows was fine, after a few initial glitches it's been working without problems for more than a month.
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