And yes, I did buy these off Amazon, so free Geek Squad isn't an option. I just spent $1700 on these 2 machines, so I shouldn't need to pay someone to fix it. It restarts itself perpetually, flashes the %complete screen for less than a second (it's stuck on 64%) and reboots, to just do it again, cycling about every 10 seconds. One of the google results advocated re-setting the PC, which considering I've not used them yet, wasn't a concern for data loss, so I did that on one of them. All the various ways to open settings don't work. If you still cannot open Settings, go to the next step. If any of the above methods is successful, choose Update & Security and then select Troubleshoot. I've switched out of S mode on both, no avail. Did one of the methods work If any of the above methods is successful, choose Update & Security and then select. However, when choosing the settings COG from the start screen, the blue screen with the cog flashes, and then goes out immediately. These are my 6th and 7th HP laptop in the past 6 months, and I am an engineer, so this shouldn't be complicated for me. Both of them will not open the settings screen after going through the new initial Windows setup. If this doesn’t work, you can open it in other ways. Usually, you open the app by clicking the Windows logo and choosing Settings. Solution 1: Alternative Ways to Open Settings.

If this fails, you can try other methods below. Bought 2 new HP Laptops, delivered 11/4/20. If Windows 10 can’t open Settings, you can try to reboot your computer to check if the issue is solved.

Windows 10 pc settings won t open