How To Disable BigBox Windows Bypass With Corrupt XML

[OldSkool8bit]

Encountered a new problem today and am completely lost.

I built a mini pc dedicated to console games and have everything running off launchbox/bigbox. I have it set to boot straight into BigBox and when i started it today I was greated with "It appears that your LaunchBox\Data\Settings.xml file is corrupt. The loading video will then load but then it just go completely black. I can't access anything...I cant do anything except reboot the PC (using Cntrl + Alt + Delete on Keyboard) and then I run into the same issue.

Is there any other way to disable it going straight into BigBox at each restart? Ive tried holding down as well as continually pressing the F8 key to try to get it to start in Safe Mode but nothing is working. Like I said 0 issue on what to do in order to get the PC to boot into windows and not BigBox so I can fix the corrupt xml file.

[jestermgee]

Best thing would be to delete that config file so it can start with a fresh one... hopefully you maintain backups of things. 

To do that if you can press CTRL+ALT+DEL then in the task manager, choose the RUN command then just run explorer.exe where you will get a windows explorer window open and you can then locate your install folder and delete ot at least rename the file so LB can then load. From there just go into BB and set not to replace the shell. 

There may be a registry tool to reset this option I am not aware of but that is how I would fix this kind of issue. 

[OldSkool8bit]

I actually couldn't do that bc the screen stayed black and even though it was open it wouldn't display.

 

I ended up having to take the drive out and put it in another computer...navigate to drive and restore a backup from the backup folder