Recent content by lexluthor5

Once I've restored my image backup, both last night and this morning I simulated boot failures and windows sent me to the correct recovery mode screen. I have no idea why it was sending me to the windows defender offline screen last night and am certainly worried that issue will pop up again...

Back up. From inside windows, I did shift reboot and was presented with the choose an option screen where I could choose troubleshoot, then advanced options->troubleshoot->startup settings and I could get into safe mode from there. Tested again multiple failed boots and now I was taken to a...

What you posted as far as the power did not work, no. Anytime that the recovery mode screen would have kicked in (like I've seen it on other PCs), up came the windows defender offline screen. As far as the link, I can't get into windows at the moment, so I don't know. My restore is almost...

I must have tried 20 restarts. After every 3 or so failed boots (by holding power down during startup) it boots into windows defender offline. After I let that run or cancel it, the system tried to start windows again. It's never going to bring up a recovery mode screen. It's like windows...

Hi, I have a Dell Latitude 3540 on Windows 10 and I can't get into safe mode. I hit F8 at boot and it brings me to a screen that has windows defender offline on it.  If I either cancel that or let the scan run, it reboots again after.  If I have multiple failed reboots, that also takes me to...