If Windows 10 knew you had a blank or even a black screen of death, it would try to fix it. Given that tens of thousands of expert programmers have worked on the code over the past 30 years, the number of safe, simple, significant and forwards-/backwards-compatible improvements may be quite small. Microsoft has spent a lot of time (and money) trying to make Windows self-repairing, partly because it generally gets the blame when other programs – or users – try to “improve” it. Said machine then bricked: boot begins, then the screen blanks.Īre there any steps that I can take to recover access to the machine? Failing that, can I recover my files from the hard drive, installed in a USB cradle? John When it restarted, it reported a missing component.
I recently ran a free trial of a PC tune-up utility, including a disk clean-up routine, on my Windows 10 laptop.
