Accidentally disabled service while troubleshooting, now login fails

I suspect that I mistakenly disabled an important service while doing troubleshooting and caused the login to fail. Have tried a restore point from recovery mode but that also failed with an obscure error can I change login to manual in in UEFI? Other ideas please?
Thanks
Dave

Hello Dave,

You could try booting into Safe Mode, see if you are able to enable the service again, then boot back into normal mode to hopefully sign in again.

Thanks Brink... My recovery>advanced options does not appear to have a boot to safe mode?
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That's ok. You should be able to select the "Command Prompt" option in your screenshot, then use the commands in option 4 below to boot into Safe Mode.

working on it... getting this
X: \windows\\System32>bcdedit /set windows 11 safeboot minimal
An error occured while attempting to reference the specifed entry.
The system cannot find the file specified.

Out of time here will start back at it 6am tomorrow... I'm in Tucson, AZ now 77
Thanks Glasskuter for another path to try

Brink said:

That's ok. You should be able to select the "Command Prompt" option in your screenshot, then use the commands in option 4 below to boot into Safe Mode.

Boot to Safe Mode in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to boot Windows 11 into normal mode, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Safe mode starts Windows in a basic state, using a limited set of files and drivers. If a problem doesn't happen in safe mode, this means that default...

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Brink, getting closer maybe... fixed my mistake in the tutorial instructions (thanks to member polysius)

and it completed but on restart we are still stuck at login. (picture attached) if I attempt the set up pin MS points to the "store" to install an app ????? (another attached image)​

Is there a restart that gets me past the login fault and into safe mode? I am presuming that I can then use system config to fix services problem. Glasskuter's workaround might also work?
All of this began with trying to determine by isolation why the latest update KB5033375 will not complete. I confess to being guilty of not being aware of the restore point problem and having an out of date useless system image.
Dave

Daveaz44 said:

working on it... getting this
X: \windows\\System32>bcdedit /set windows 11 safeboot minimal
An error occured while attempting to reference the specifed entry.
The system cannot find the file specified.

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You did not follow option 4 from Brink's tutorial?

In any case "Windows 11" and "windows 11" might not be the same.

Daveaz44 said:

Brink

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It looks like you may have used the "Description" (ex: "Windows 11") instead of the "Identifier" (ex: "{default}") for the "Description".

morning update

Brink, getting closer maybe... fixed my mistake in the tutorial instructions (thanks to member polysius)

and it completed but on restart we are still stuck at login. (picture attached) if I attempt the set up pin MS points to the "store" to install an app ????? (another attached image)​

Is there a restart that gets me past the login fault and into safe mode? I am presuming that I can then use system config to fix services problem. Glasskuter's workaround might also work?
All of this began with trying to determine by isolation why the latest update KB5033375 will not complete. I confess to being guilty of not being aware of the restore point problem and having an out of date useless system image.
Dave
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Looks like you may be at a stuck point.

If you like, you can try to enable the built-in Administrator account at boot using option 5 below.


Next, while signed in to the built-in "Administrator" account. disable passwordless sign-in for Microsoft accounts using option 2 below.


Hopefully, you will now be able to sign in to your account using your password instead of PIN.

update... Brink, admistrator active but when normal boot the login screen not showing the admin? working on D:\windows\system32 to get to regedit and try your passwordless sign-in tutorial...

sorry... the boot was set to safe mode boot

Brink, planning options. If we can't get past being "stuck" at not being able to get into safe mode, then would it be possible to do an in-place from the recovery command prompt? I have the iso.
Dave

Daveaz44 said:

Brink, planning options. If we can't get past being "stuck" at not being able to get into safe mode, then would it be possible to do an in-place from the recovery command prompt? I have the iso.
Dave

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Like in most forums, you need the @<username>to get someone's attention.

Daveaz44 said:

Brink, planning options. If we can't get past being "stuck" at not being able to get into safe mode, then would it be possible to do an in-place from the recovery command prompt? I have the iso.
Dave

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I'm afraid not. A repair install can only be performed from within Windows.

Were you able to enable and sign in to the built-in "Administrator" account?

enabling the administrator as active was straight forward... but could not find a way to"sign-in"

Just to confirm, did booting into Safe Mode have you signed into the built-in Admin?