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I uttered the same words when, after not booting up my machine for a month due to a move, I got the lovely, lovely message...

"A component of the operating system has expired."

and I was unable to boot any further. still am not. had to turn back my BIOS clock a month in order to "unlock it".

needless to say, a planned install of linux is on the way. I've had enough.

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Are you running Insider builds? Because I believe there is a warning when you first enable them that they do expire, and in this case, it did. I've only had an expiration BSOD when my Insider build expired; regular builds shouldn't exhibit this behaviour.

it's funny, I switched to insider builds, then switched _back_ to the regular builds on a stock install of 10, and this still happened.

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