Windows 11 | Advanced Startup From Boot !new!

A few seconds later, blue options appeared. Not the sad blue screen—the useful one.

I pressed the power button. The Lenovo logo appeared. Then—nothing. Just a spinning circle of dots that looped for ten minutes. Windows 11 was stuck in a boot loop, somewhere between "Just a moment" and "Your PC ran into a problem." windows 11 advanced startup from boot

Five minutes later, my laptop rebooted. The login screen appeared. My paper was still there. My coffee was not. A few seconds later, blue options appeared

Then I remembered:

From that night on, I knew: Moral of the story: If Windows won't start, don't reformat. Just trip the emergency breaker—three failed boots, and Advanced Startup will meet you in the dark. A few seconds later