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How Windows 10 Computer Gets Stuck in 'Restarting' Screen

Windows 10 is still far from perfect, with users continuing to complain about Windows 10 problems on a daily basis. Microsoft are doing their best to remedy the situation with updates that seem to. TomStrong said: Hello everyone, Windows Update has been stuck at 0% every time I've tried in the last couple of days (see screenshot). These are the two updates available: Security Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3103688). Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3105213). After finishing the file backup, now you can reinstall your Windows 10 to fix getting Windows ready stuck issue. Step 1: Boot your computer from an installation disc or drive. Step 2: Choose the language, time format, and keyboard. Step 3: Click Install now and follow the instructions on the screen.

We felt sorry to post this tutorial too late after most of you have encountered this biggest headache that Windows 10 update gets stuck on the 'Restarting' screen. We've noticed that restarting stuck problem happens every now and then when users try to upgrade Windows 10 from Windows 7 & Windows 8, or just do a regular Windows 10 update (i.e. Windows 10 Anniversary Update, version 1607), etc.

Case 1 - 'I recently downloaded my Windows 10 upgrade which I had reserved, everything went smoothly but when I click the 'upgrade now button' in the dialog prompt which says schedule it or go for it now, the computer goes into restart screen and stays there forever.'

Case 2 - 'After I successfully upgraded from Windows 10 v1511 to v1607, during which no error messages, no incompatible devices... my system gets stuck at the restarting screen whenever I want to restart my system. Always.'

Are you one of the unfortunate groups suffering from endless restarting but never made that? Don't be upset anymore, because we're coming to help. From professional MS technicians and experienced Windows 10 users, we get to know that the restarting problem is with our very old Windows Update files, which updates itself every time while a new update is trying to install on our computer. This conflict is where it is getting stuck.

Fix 1. Unplug Any Peripherals Connected to the Computer

One user said that he fixed his computer stuck in restarting by unplugging all USB devices from the machine, and then booted again by cycling power. By which he successfully passed the spinning circles on the black screen. Quite a number of people followed his advice and troubleshot the problem.

Fix 2. End Process of Failed Program in Task Manager

Another simple fix for Windows 10 getting stuck at restarting screen is upvoted by a lot of people, it says if your Windows 10 session gets stuck during a system restart, you can try these operations:

1. 1. Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE.
2. 2. Afterward, the restart screen will disappear and be replaced by the Task Manager, where the 'hanging' programs that failed to close will be revealed.
3. 3. End the processes of all running programs, then you'll recover from the 'Restarting' screen.

Fix 3. Run System Maintenance Troubleshooter

1. Press the Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Troubleshooting in the search bar, and select the topmost search result.

2. Select'View all' from the left side panel of the window.

3. Select 'System Maintenance' from the listed options, click on the 'Advanced' option and check to 'Apply repairs automatically' option.

1. 4. Follow the on-screen instructions and wait for the troubleshooting to complete.
2. After the troubleshooting is completed, check the status for any missing system components on the computer.
3. 5. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.

Fix 4. Restart the Update Service Using Command Prompt

• On the lower-left corner of the screen, right-click and select Command Prompt (Admin).

• Type 'net stop wuauserv' (without quotes). Press enter. This will stop the update service from running in the background.
• Now type 'cd %systemroot%' (without quotes). Press enter. This command will navigate the command prompt to the installation directory of Windows OS.
• Type 'ren SoftwareDistribution SD.old' (without quotes). Press enter. By this command, the OS will rename the SoftwareDistribution folder to SD.old for a backup. In case anything goes wrong, you can just go to the C:WINDOWSSoftwareDistribution and change it to its original name.
• Lastly, type 'net start wuauserv' (without quotes). Press enter. With this command, we will restart the update service in order to enable updates to the system.

Fix 5. Rollback to the Previous Version of Windows

Hope the fixes above already fixed your problem, because this is the last chance you could stop Windows 10 computer getting stuck in 'Restarting' screen. To restore Windows 10 to the previous version, you'll have many options and you can try any one of them for help:

Option 1: Rollback to the previous version of Windows 10 in 10 days/30 days

Option 2: Restore Windows 10 to the previous version with a previously created system backup image.

So, before going to read further information, you need to make sure that you've created system backup image with some backup and recovery software, for example, EaseUS data backup software.

Option 3: Transfer and restore Windows 10 system image to current PC with a stuck screen

To restore your Windows 10 and remove the stuck screen of restarting, you can also apply EaseUS Todo Backup to transfer and restore a healthy Windows system to your PC with the below guidelines:

Install EaseUS Todo Backup on a new and healthy Windows 10 computer and use it to create a Windows 10 system image backup to an external hard drive.

Step 1. Create an emergency disk on a healthy computer

To save your time and energy, we'd like to suggest you create an emergency disk to a USB or external hard drive rather on a healthy computer with EaseUS Todo Backup.

1. Connect an empty USB flash drive or external hard drive with over than 100GB space to your PC.
2. Run EaseUS Todo Backup and click 'Tools > Create Emergency Disk'.

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3. Choose USB as the disk location to create the emergency disk which will help you boot computer when it fails to boot or restore the system to dissimilar new PC.
4. Click 'Proceed'.

Step 2. Create a Windows system image backup for restoring to dissimilar hardware

1. Run EaseUS Todo Backup on the healthy computer and click 'System Backup' on the left pane.
2. Choose the Windows OS and specify the USB flash drive which contains the emergency disk as the destination disk to save system image.
If you are worried about data loss issue by saving the system image to the emergency disk drive, you may also save system backup to another empty external hard drive with over 100GB free space.

This will help you create a full backup of the whole Windows system and all installed programs, applications on your C drive to the selected device.

3. Click 'Proceed' to start creating a system backup image to the target device.

Step 3. Boot the dissimilar hardware/computer from EaseUS Todo Backup emergency disk

1. Connect the USB flash drive or external hard drive with emergency disk and system backup image to the new computer.
2. Restart PC and press F2/F8 to boot into BIOS.
3. Change boot drive and set the computer to boot from the EaseUS Todo Backup emergency disk.
Then you'll enter EaseUS Todo Backup main interface.

Step 4. Transfer and recover the system to dissimilar hardware or new computer

1. On EaseUS Todo Backup main window, click'System Transfer'.

2. Select the system image on your drive and click 'OK' to continue.

3. Specify the disk to save system image and tick 'System Transfer' in Advanced options, click 'OK' to save changes.
Then click 'Proceed' to start transferring system and even some installed programs on system C: drive to the new hardware computer now.

Step 5. Restart PC with transferred system
1. Change boot sequence in BIOS to set the computer to boot up from the drive with the transferred system.
2. Save all changes and restart your computer.
3. Update all drive drivers and programs to ensure all things will work just fine on the new computer.

You should be able to use your computer with Windows 10 again without a restarting screen. And the last thing you should do is to active Windows 10 for smooth usage with your activation key.

Summary :

What is high memory usage? How do I check it? And how do I fix it? This article will give you a brief introduction to high memory usage and tell you how to solve it step by step. These methods can solve most common Windows 10 high memory usage problems.

About High Memory Usage

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What Is Computer Memory?

Computer memory is one of the most important parts of a computer. It includes RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), and Cache (click computer booting to know the relationship between RAM and ROM). It enables CPU (Central Processing Unit) to access instructions and data quickly.

The memory is used to temporarily store the operational data of CPU and the data exchanged with an external memory (such as a hard disk). To put it plainly, CPU will transfer the data that needs to be operated into the memory for operation when the computer is running and transmit the result out when the operation is completed.

Additionally, the program installed on hard drive disk is also loaded into memory for running. So, the main memory has great influence on computer's stable operation.

How to Check Windows 10 High Memory Usage

Windows 10 high memory usage is usually related to RAM and virtual memory. Although memory is tightly connected with CPU and hard drive, the high memory usage problem still differs from high CPU usage and high disk usage problems.

If the computer has high memory usages problem, it will freeze (especially when a large program like a game is running). Sometimes, it will result in 'Your computer is low on memory' error popping up.

In addition, computer users can also evaluate high memory usage Windows 10 on Task Manager. Follow the steps: right click the taskbar and select Task Manager.

How to solve high memory usage Windows 10 problem? The methods users take should depend on the causes to the problem. The reasons that may cause high memory usage Windows 10 are various, but the common causes are as follows.

• Running too many programs at the same time.
• Registry hack.
• Defective program design.
• Startup programs.
• Insufficient disk space.
• Virus or antivirus.
• Other causes.

How to Fix Windows 10 High Memory Usage

How to Fix Windows 10 High Memory Usage

1. Close unnecessary programs.
2. Disable startup programs.
3. Disable Superfetch service.
4. Increase virtual memory.
5. Set Registry Hack.
6. Defragment hard drives.
7. Methods suitable for software problems.
8. Virus or antivirus.
9. Adjust for best performance.
10. Reinstall Windows 10.
11. Increase physical memory.

Fix 1: Close unnecessary programs

If the high memory usage is caused by the computer running multiple programs at the same time, users could close the program to solve this problem. Or if a program occupies too much memory, users can also end this program to solve this problem.

Similarly, open Task Manager. Then right click the application you want to end up under Processes and choose End task.

Fix 2: Disable startup programs

Some programs run automatically when the computer starts up. If users don't need these programs to run at startup, they can disable them.

Open Task Manager and then navigate to Startup page. Right click the programs that you don't want to run at startup and then select Disable.

Fix 3: Disable Superfetch service

Superfetch service is usually booted by default. This service is especially designed for traditional hard drive disk. It improves computer performance by only allowing the memory to load a fraction of the data needed to run common programs very quickly.

So, although it may cause high memory usage Windows 10, it shouldn't be disabled if the computer disk is hard drive disk. However, if the computer disk is SSD, this service should be disabled.

Press 'Windows + R' keys, and then type 'services.msc' to open Services window. Scroll down to select Superfetch. Right click on it and select Stop to disable it.

Fix 4: Increase virtual memory

Virtual memory is a computer system memory management technology, which can make a part of disk space serve as memory to relieve memory stress. Virtual memory is actually a big file on hard disk named PageFile.sys.

How to set virtual memory in Windows 10? Here is a tutorial.

Step 1: Find virtual memory and click Change.

• Open File Explorer and right click This PC, and then select Properties.
• Select Advanced system settings in the pop-up window.
• Click Settings in Performance box under Advanced page of System Properties
• Navigate to Advanced page in the pop-up Performance Options window, and then click Change in Virtual memory box.

Step 2: Cancel virtual memory on partition C.

• Uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.
• Select partition C and then check No paging file, and then click Set to save it.
• Then, click Yes in the pop-up warning window.

Step 3: Set suitable virtual memory on non-system partition.

• Select a non-system partition and then check Custom size.
• Set a same value in Initial size and Maximum size to avoid system frequently requesting page files of different sizes, which can reduce the consume of system resource and improve operating efficiency.
• Then click Set and OK to save.

Fix 5: Set Registry Hack

This feature can delete page file at shut down to release virtual memory.

Here is a tutorial.

Step 1: Press 'Windows + R' keys and then type 'regedit' to open Registry Editor.

Step 2: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Session Manager > Memory Management.

Step 3: Find ClearPageFileAtShutDown and right click it to modify its value to 1, and then click OK to save it.

Step 4: Restart the computer to boot up the Registry Hack setting.

Fix 6: Defragment hard drives

Defragmenting hard drives can also help to save memory space. Users can use Disk Defragmenter to complete defragmentation. Click disk defragmentation to know more information about it and more methods.

Open File Explorer and select Partition C. Then click Manage on the toolbar and click Optimize. Finally select Partition C and click Optimize.

Additionally, computer users should delete unnecessary files on Partition C. The Space Analyazer feature of MiniTool Partition Wizard is recommended to perform this operation well. This feature also displays hidden files for users to conveniently delete them.

Here is the tutorial.

Step 1: Download MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it to get its main interface. And then click Space Analyzer on the toolbar.

Step 2: Select Partition C and click Scan. After scanning process is completed, select unnecessary files and right click them to delete.

Fix 7: Methods suitable for software problems

Windows 10 memory leak

Sometimes, the Windows 10 high memory usage is caused by memory leak, which is caused by defective software design.

Memory leak has great influence on computer server where programs will run for a long time. It will make memory space smaller and smaller and finally result in downtime.

As for personal computers, Windows 10 memory leaks will generally consume all the memory space. Although rebooting the computer can solve this problem temporarily, when the software runs again, the problem will occur again.

Because this problem is caused by defective software design, in order to solve this problem, users can download a patch, change version, or uninstall the defective software.

Chrome

At the same time, some computer users complain that Chrome occupies too much memory usage, which is usually caused by the tab page single process design of Chrome. So, when users open too much tab pages, Chrome eats a lot of memory.

Luckily, if it is Chrome who occupies too much memory, users can close prefetch feature or install One Tab extension to solve this problem.

Way 1: Open Chrome and go to Settings. Scroll down to open advanced settings. Uncheck 'Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar” and 'Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly'.

Way 2: One Tab extension can close all tabs and integrate them into one tab, which can release a huge amount of memory space.

Fix 8: Virus or antivirus

Sometimes, the Windows 10 high memory usage is caused by virus. If so, computer users should run a virus scan of all files. Users can run the antivirus programs that they trust, or they can run the built-in Windows Defender if they don't install any other antivirus program.

Here is a guide to Windows Defender.

Step 1: Find Windows Defender.

• Click Start button and select Settings.
• Select Security & Update.

Step 2: Run Windows Defender.

• Click Windows Defender and Open Windows Defender Security Center.
• Click Virus & threat protection and then click Quick scan.

But there has been users reporting that antivirus programs, including Windows Defender may cause Windows 10 high memory usage. If so, they can end the process of antivirus programs in Task Manger.

Fix 9: Adjust for best performance

Step 1: Open File Explorer, right click This PC, and then select Properties.

Step 2: Click Advanced system settings and then click Settings in Performance box.

Step 3: Check Adjust for best performance and click Apply. Finally click OK.

Fix 10: Reinstall Windows 10

Some users report that Windows 10 high memory usage only occurs when they leave the PC alone for about 30-45 minutes. Or this problem occurs after they upgrade to Windows 10. They have adopted the above methods to solve it, but it seems that these methods don't work.

At last, they have to reinstall Windows 10 or reset PC. Fortunately, the reinstallation or reset usually fixes the problem. So, reinstalling Windows 10 and resetting PC are also methods to solve the problem.

When users decide to reinstall Windows 10 or reset PC, backup is recommended in advance. If the reinstallation and reset have accidentally caused data loss, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you recover them. Click recovering data for detailed tutorial.

Fix 11: Increase physical memory

If the physical memory is very small, users can add a memory bank. How to check memory size? Open File Explorer and right click This PC to select Properties.

Generally speaking, 4G memory can satisfy simple needs in daily life. However, if users want to use computer to run large programs or to play games like H1Z1, at least 8G memory is needed.

But if users want to add memory, please note that the memory type must be the same. Users can refer to the parameters of memory bank installed on computer. Otherwise, incompatibility may appear.

Bottom line

The above 11 methods can solve Windows 10 high memory usage caused by most common reasons. However, there are still other reasons to cause it and other methods to cause it.

If you have this problem and can't solve it with the above methods, please leave a comment below for discussion. Surely, if you have better solutions for high memory usage, please leave a comment for sharing. Email to [email protected] for help if you have problems in dealing with high memory usage.

Windows 10 High Memory Usage FAQ

1. Close unnecessary programs.
2. Disable startup programs.
3. Disable Superfetch service.
4. Increase virtual memory.
5. Set Registry Hack.
6. Defragment hard drives.
7. Methods suitable for software problems.
8. Virus or antivirus.
9. Adjust for best performance.
10. Reinstall Windows 10.
11. Increase physical memory.

1. Running too many programs at the same time.
2. Registry hack.
3. Defective program design.
4. Startup programs.
5. Insufficient disk space.
6. Virus or antivirus.
7. Other causes.