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Nevermind, found a solution myself. I remembered that I made a bootable flash drive for Windows 8.1 so I tried if I can extract the contents of the install.wim file. Apparently, you can! I opened it with 7-zip and copied the Default folder which was only 350Kb in size. I don't get that error...

I will try to replace the Default folder because that seems to be the solution for this issue. From User Profile Service failed the sign-in

I get a "User Profile service failed the sign in" prompt whenever I try to login on every new account I make. From what I've seen on other forums, it seems to be because of a corrupted Default folder. I checked mine and it only has the AppData folder. Is there somewhere I can download the...

I want to try this because my Windows 8.1 install seems to be malfunctioning. Question though, is it still possible to cancel if I'm already at steps beyond step 11?

It seems to be a lot of work lol. What's the worst thing that could happen if I don't fix those issues? I feel like I've had them since 2015 but only noticed them recently because I was tinkering with the sfc /scannow command.

I just checked and you're right. It's English (US). My concern is that since my Windows seemed to be corrupt because of all the various issues I've mentioned, is doing a repair as explained here How To Repair Windows 8.1 Installation (The Easy Way) will make my laptop worse? Because I assume...

@Slavic Does the language of my original Windows installation matter? Maybe that's what's wrong with the ISO I downloaded? I'm not sure what the original language was. There are currently 3 languages on my laptop.

I think the ISO I have right now is fine because I was able to use it to go out of the bootloop incident I mentioned in the OP. With that said, are you saying I should do this? How To Repair Windows 8.1 Installation (The Easy Way) Is re-installation and repairing the same?

@Bree Upon booting up my laptop today, I tried sfc /scannow and it worked I think. But after that I tried /ScanHealth again and it said that the component store is repairable. I wasn't able to take a screenshot, sorry. So I tried /RestoreHealth both with and without /Source and they're...

I don't know exactly what's the main problem but here are the symptoms: Windows Update is a mess. It usually gets stuck with checking if there are updates. And if it does detect that there are available updates, the downloading takes forever. My theory is that way back in 2015 (my laptop was...

The error I got while installing the update was "Driver Power State Failure". I didn't mind it since I get it quite often. Naturally, it restarted itself and on bootup, it tries to continue updating. At about 49% it gave me this error: . I restarted it multiple times. Upon the 3rd restart, it...

I'm sorry I don't understand. If I go to Safe Mode, can I install a driver?

Is this what you meant? I can go to it but when I press F8, Windows just starts normally.

Can I install a driver in Safe Mode? I think I can go to Safe Mode. It's just the Startup Settings I can't go into.

I can open Advanced startup. What I can't access is the Startup Options. This is what I want to go to but it just reboots straight to desktop.