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[Filingo]

Hello,

 

I upgraded the CPU on my PC. In order to do that I had to disable fTPM (because I needed to update the BIOS and it wouldn't let me with fTPM enabled).

I've been using Windows PIN to log in, but because I disabled fTPM and then changed CPU, then the PIN was not available and I had to use the password.

 

But, I forgot my password so I reinstalled Windows using the Troubleshooting menu on boot. That didn't work but by the time I did it I remembered my password.

 

Now in the clean installation of Windows, Windows Defender is blank whenever I open it, and I get this message:

 

 

How can I fix that?

 

Thanks

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Filingo said:

How can I fix that?

Just reinstall windows again fresh , it might literally be faster than trying to diagnose the issue.

[Filingo]

Oh no T_T,

I already installed all the apps and games again so it would take quite some time (however that would be the last resort)

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, Filingo said:

Oh no T_T,

I already installed all the apps and games again so it would take quite some time (however that would be the last resort)

well no joke , if it takes say 10 hours to reinstall everything , that still might be faster and easier than trying to diagnose the issue

just keep that in mind

[Kilrah]

WD is usually very (too) resilient, so there's a possibility what broke it is some malware in stuff you installed. 

Maybe check things work before installing things.

[Filingo]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

WD is usually very (too) resilient, so there's a possibility what broke it is some malware in stuff you installed. 

Maybe check things work before installing things.

It was probably not a malware that broke it, because I only installed:

Steam, some Steam games, HWMonitor, VSCode, MySQL, MySQL Workbench, Github Desktop, Git, Cinbebench and some more regular safe things

 

I think it has to do something with what I did earlier:

 

I disabled fTPM which then broke the PIN, I then upgraded BIOS then changed CPU, and then reinstalled Windows in a way I never installed - it was the reset option from the Troubleshooting menu at the boot where you save your files but not the apps(when you hold Shift while restarting)

 

Maybe because I had Malwarebytes installed before, then on the reinstall it wasn't available it broke something in the registry?

 

2 hours ago, emosun said:

well no joke , if it takes say 10 hours to reinstall everything , that still might be faster and easier than trying to diagnose the issue

just keep that in mind

You were right, reinstalling  

[Filingo]

Update: I just did a clean install and for the first time it was a Windows 11 media and not Windows 10.

This time they cancelled the option to have a local account by default and the "Next" button is grayed out if you are not connected to the internet.

 

I then searched and found that I can bypass that by launching the cmd and typing OOBE\BYPASSNRO, and it worked.

 

Could that however have some side effects?

[Kilrah]

Unlikely, I do all my installs this way and never had an issue.

[Formenis]

I've been having same issue after clean install (nothing installed afterwards) googling it seems I'm not the only one and nobody has a solution a part from windows +F key to report the issue to Microsoft. 
 

if you manage to fix the issue I'll be interested in knowing how! 

[Filingo]

20 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Unlikely, I do all my installs this way and never had an issue.

So weird then because I really have no malware whatsoever (only official safe things)

20 hours ago, Formenis said:

I've been having same issue after clean install (nothing installed afterwards) googling it seems I'm not the only one and nobody has a solution a part from windows +F key to report the issue to Microsoft. 
 

if you manage to fix the issue I'll be interested in knowing how! 

Nope, I ended up just doing a clean install of Windows 11, as @emosun suggested, it was definitely faster and saved headache.

The only thing was that I needed to backup my personal files this time (Because the other reinstallation method keeps your files)

[Formenis]

23 minutes ago, Filingo said:

So weird then because I really have no malware whatsoever (only official safe things)

Nope, I ended up just doing a clean install of Windows 11, as @emosun suggested, it was definitely faster and saved headache.

The only thing was that I needed to backup my personal files this time (Because the other reinstallation method keeps your files)

Did the clean install work?

 

as it didn't for me

[Formenis]

FYI for me, Doing an offline reinstall worked 

[Filingo]

yes clean install worked. How did you do the clean install initially where it didn't work? I used a USB flash drive, I then deleted all the old partitions on the drive and made a completely new installation

 

 

[Formenis]

5 hours ago, Filingo said:

yes clean install worked. How did you do the clean install initially where it didn't work? I used a USB flash drive, I then deleted all the old partitions on the drive and made a completely new installation

 

 

This how I ended up doing it.

 

however before I just used the reset feature of windows without usb drive