Hey everyone, I really messed up and need some advice.

HP Victus

Windows 11

I was trying a networking tweak I saw online to fix lag and changed the NetworkThrottlingIndex value to ffffffff in the registry. Right after doing it, my laptop randomly froze, got super hot, and instantly shut itself off (pretty sure it hit a thermal limit and pulled the plug).

Now, it’s stuck in an endless Automatic Repair blue screen loop. I can't even boot into safe mode it just reverts me back to the blue screen.

Here is where things stand right now:

I can't use "Reset This PC"—it just throws an error immediately and says no changes were made.

I ran the hardware diagnostics via the F2 menu at boot, and everything PASSED. My processor, fans, and SSD are completely fine physically.

I managed to open Notepad through the Command Prompt file picker to check my drive, and my entire user folder is still there under C:\\\\Users\\\\. So my data isn't wiped, it's just trapped.

The SrtTrail.txt log file is completely empty, so Windows isn't even logging why it's failing to boot.

Is there any way to fix this or did i completely messed up, I changed the value back to a through command prompt in troubleshoot but still windows isn't loading. What should I do? The image is what I revert back to no matter what I try.

Please help my windows isn't booting up, no matter what I do.