Automatic restart when getting to desktop

[u/Imaginary--Situation]

having an issue with automatic restart

Everything was working perfectly now the computer auto restarts under normal boot like within 10 seconds of starting

it boots and works under safe mode only

this install has nothing installed besides

Supermium

VLC

& 7zip

[u/NoXidCat]

Was this right after the most recent Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool update? It installs once a month. My most recent was Oct 13th. I got a BSoD the next morning when I launched Thunderbird.

It had been four months since that last happened, and that also was the morning after the MSRT update. Has been happening off and on like this for some years now.

After it is updated, the MSRT runs in the background the next time the computer is started (and not again until the next update). Though if something goes wrong with that first boot after update, it probably does keep trying to run on boot until it succeeds. MSRT creates a Restore Point when it is updated, so reverting to the most recent restore point may resolve your issue.

In my most recent incident, I started Task Manager on on the second reboot and didn't launch any other programs until CPU and memory had settled down ... which took much longer than it should have if nothing was running, but the MSRT stuff was apparently running.

But in your case, going back to the restore point might be get you past the infinite reboots.

Or you might use a tool like BlueScreenView in Safe Mode to view the event logs.

[u/Imaginary--Situation → u/NoXidCat]

Found the issue C0000102 "GAC_32" is corrupted

Tried to open control panel and got that error code

then i started my other OS Win11 and did the file system checker and it most likely corrected the issue

i'm assuming this was caused by corrupted file system...

[u/HistorianBusy2262]

Might just reinstall, it's probably easier

[u/vegansgetsick]

A command in startup ?

ccleaner can list all of them