
We're going to show you how to fix it to recover your user profile or, alternatively, make a new account. If an error message prevents you from signing in to your Windows 10 user account, your profile may have become corrupted. So I initiated a reboot again and it finally went -_-.Image Credit: Dooder via When I logged back in, I saw that the server uptime was still more than a couple minutes. I clicked Restart anyway to proceed.Īfter that, Server signed me out. This caused the screen to display “Signing out…” for a few seconds before showing me the prompt of whether or not I wanted to save my files or Restart anyway. This came up with the security options display. I was accessing the server via mstsc (RDP), so to get out of this situation, I pressed ctrl+ alt+ end (which is like pressing ctrl+ alt+ del on the remote computer).

I think it was confused, it was supposed to show me if I wanted to close my apps first before proceeding but was instead showing the Rebooting screen forever. Then it displayed the “Restarting” screen forever.

The way I got into this state was I clicked the Reboot/Restart button in Windows Update and then responded “Yes” to the prompt of whether it was OK to restart even though other users were logged in.

I had Windows 2012 R2 stuck at reboot with the spinner spinning with the screen pictured in the question.
