My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

Instead, it gives me this message:
"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a
virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

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