I think this is on the right track, but I'm still having issues.
Once I do all that and go to restart my PC, the only option is "Update and Restart", so it just puts me in the loop again. I also can't boot to safe mode.. I ran something in cmd to enable the "F8" on startup, but it failed, and when I go to msconfig > boot, the box at the top with my OS is blank, and I can't enable "Safe boot".
Also if I go to "Change advanced startup options", and click "restart now" under Advanced Startup, there's no way to get to the menu to safe boot, I can either shut down, or go to my bios, that's all.