BSOD Critical process died win 10

beakmom

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Sep 12, 2016
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Pc shut itself down. When I turned it on, windows would not start. Got BSOD with code critical process died. I tried restarting. It tried to run auto repair, but said it was unable to. I tried advanced options under troubleshooting, tried just about every option there. It couldn't run system restore because "You must enable system protection on this drive." Which I do not know to do, especially without access to windows. I tried to run sscan, but it was unable to. I can't get windows to open at all in any mode. I even tried reinstalling windows from boot disk. Didn't work.
Yesterday, I installed hp software for my old deskjet 4480. At that point, i did get an odd little error message saying that the app i was trying to use was incompatible with my version of windows, with some reference to svchost. Pc still worked, so i carried on.
Today, I tried to get online by tethering my phone. Didn't work. It was after that this happened.