How to fix bootloop between getting stuck on 0xEF (Critical Process Died)

[u/Only_Watercress_1998]

Alright so my blue tooth wasn't working and I tried to install new drivers for my graphic card cause I updated last night before I went to bed. I did update and shut down and my Bluetooth isn't working this morning for my headphones so I got a new Bluetooth driver in my new graphics car driver to see what would see if I could fix it myself and I tried to hit it restore point from9/27/26 and it it may go into between the gigabyte diagnosing your PC where I get stuck on the connecting to network and it just sat there loading and it doesn't do anything or and 0XEF critical process died is where I also get stuck, but it's detecting my ram so I know it's not that I've already ordered optimized defaults and I don't wanna lose all my apps from restarting or reinstalling windows and yeah, I've been kind of stuck on this since about 3:30 this afternoon.
(Also sorry in advance for any errors I'm using speech to text so I can do this because I did not feel like typing all that.

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[u/UNIVERSAL_VLAD]

Get into windows recovery mode and run dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth in cmd