sign in loop

pc building noob here · July 17, 2024

i just got a Blackview MP80 Mini PC, after updating windows 11 pro, uninstalling the 8 different office installs and onedrive with revo uninstaller, than istalling office 2021 on the right language and downloading chrome aswell as setting it as the default browser . i have encountered a problem signing in to windows. i can boot up fine, but after getting to the welcome screen i can click and go to the sign in page, i don't have a field to enter the password and just have the text button to sign in. when clicked it sends me to the welcome page and it loops. can someone please help me?

just for good measure(even thou i am 99.99% sure bios have nothing to do with it since i did not touch it, and the problem is with windows) i have went in the bios and clicked restore default settings. than save and exit.

this is the default windows 11 pro install that came with it .

SpookyCitrus · July 17, 2024

Uninstalling stuff with Revo can get pretty dicey. Also OneDrive is integrated into Windows 11 and is linked to Microsoft Account sign in. So, possibly when you Revo'd it you accidentally deleted something that is necessary for the sign in to work. You can try getting around it by using a program such as PC Unlocker(unfortunately it's a paid program) and removing the password for sign in, which should allow it to just automatically get past the sign in screen. However, I don't know for sure if it will work it could still just loop the welcome screen.

If you don't have any important user data on it and all you have done is a cleanup of bloatware and installed office, I'd recommend just doing a fresh install of Windows 11 and starting over fresh, it's going to be quicker even with installing office again, than trying to remedy this issue.

I'd also recommend not trying to Revo Uninstaller apps or features that are baked into the OS. That's a no no. I'd recommend following a tutorial on how to disable OneDrive over trying to remove it from the OS.

pc building noob here · July 17, 2024

9 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Uninstalling stuff with Revo can get pretty dicey. Also OneDrive is integrated into Windows 11 and is linked to Microsoft Account sign in. So, possibly when you Revo'd it you accidentally deleted something that is necessary for the sign in to work. You can try getting around it by using a program such as PC Unlocker(unfortunately it's a paid program) and removing the password for sign in, which should allow it to just automatically get past the sign in screen. However, I don't know for sure if it will work it could still just loop the welcome screen.

If you don't have any important user data on it and all you have done is a cleanup of bloatware and installed office, I'd recommend just doing a fresh install of Windows 11 and starting over fresh, it's going to be quicker even with installing office again, than trying to remedy this issue.

I'd also recommend not trying to Revo Uninstaller apps or features that are baked into the OS. That's a no no. I'd recommend following a tutorial on how to disable OneDrive over trying to remove it from the OS.

sorry to add this so late, i forgot to add that i did a restart betwin chunks of windows updates. and i was able to log in fine after uninstalling one drive, and after finishing the updates is when the problem happened. i clicked the blue restart on the update page in settings when it finished installing alot of updates and i had some that had the blue install button on them, so no update was interrupted.

BillBill · July 17, 2024

6 hours ago, pc building noob here said:

i just got a Blackview MP80 Mini PC, after updating windows 11 pro, uninstalling the 8 different office installs and onedrive with revo uninstaller, than istalling office 2021 on the right language and downloading chrome aswell as setting it as the default browser . i have encountered a problem signing in to windows. i can boot up fine, but after getting to the welcome screen i can click and go to the sign in page, i don't have a field to enter the password and just have the text button to sign in. when clicked it sends me to the welcome page and it loops. can someone please help me?

just for good measure(even thou i am 99.99% sure bios have nothing to do with it since i did not touch it, and the problem is with windows) i have went in the bios and clicked restore default settings. than save and exit.

this is the default windows 11 pro install that came with it .

Best thing to do is disable what you will not use. Uninstalling stuff can mess up Windows. There is software that you can easily disable stuff without much effort.