Was trying to solve another issue whereby putting my machine to sleep or hibernate would not work. Untrusted one or two MS items but now cannot log in.

Safe mode prevents me from going back to trust again though.

Thanks in advance.

@Bradddd Welcome.

Is your problem related to Kaspersky ?

Hi Berny, thank you.

Yes Kaspersky Standard and updated version.

I earlier tried 'restoring application settings' to default but that didn't solve my issue..

for more context, if you go to Performance > Current Activity > View.. there are controls to trust or distrust apps/services on one's machine, I need to gain access but cannot in safe mode.

did system restore again now it seems ok. Will reply if more issues tomorrow. Thanks..