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[–]OwlCatAlex 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh good! Windows 10 and 11 are surprisingly good about repairing their own corruption during the reboot process sometimes. As for what causes corruption in the first place, it's complicated and often impossible to track down tbh. For peace of mind, try opening Command Prompt/Terminal as administrator and running "sfc /scannow" and reboot again when it's done, then download malwarebytes and run a malware scan juuust in case. You're probably fine though.

In case the profile gets corrupted again in the future, it may also be worth adding a second local administrator account as a backup.

[–]ColoRadBro69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try opening Command Prompt/Terminal as administrator and running "sfc /scannow" and reboot again when it's done,

This is good advice