But in the meantime look over MrBrian’s AKB2000009, it was written for repairing failed updates that would not allow the desktop to display at all. Please wait for someone more familiar with Win10 to give better direction. The bad news is it does not give a clear message of the failure, nor direction to resolve. The good news is, Win10 gets to a working desktop for you. I do not think that is the case, because you go on to describe a failed update loop. Except if you are new to Win 10, and have a confusion that I have seen in others, where you interpret ‘standby and waking’ as ‘shutdown and starting’. Please know that when you have restarted, you have rebooted. Hi Faye CW 23, it is true that ‘boot’ and ‘reboot’ can have different modifiers to describe different methods, i.e.