Great to hear that the issue is gone ! And yeah, make a restore point for sure, you might never know when you will need one… and a back up image disk is a great idea too, when things go bonkers. Saved many peoples data over the years. You might want to do that every month or so, or set it up so windows will do that automatically for you.
Trust me, spending a hour for this now beats spending a week re-installing windows and recovering data. 🙂