Computer Help and Support

I am a tech moron and hardly use my desk top and use my tablet mostly. When I turned it on after not using it for over a month it would not start and trouble shooting with windows 10 kept saying I had so and so options, one was to go to settings and lose everything except my files. Since I do not know anything about this I was determined not to do what it suggested since I would not be able to figure out what I did and would have to pay a person to come and fix it which I can't afford. After over 1 hour of turning it off and on repeatedly and hitting the "troubleshoot" and "fix the problem" buttons it ended up finding the problem somehow and fixed itself. I think it is a windows scam personally.