Immediately upon booting into safe mode, the upgrade continued as if nothing had happened, and has since installed itself perfectly. How did you get to safe mode? It's not a choice on my machine. When it came back up, windows recognized that it didn't shut down properly, and gave me the option to boot in safe mode. I tried the SAME thing--my machine wouldn't even come up in safe mode!!!
I have a Toshiba restore disk I still need more log files for the investigation that we are doing:. If people are running into this can you send me the log files. Can you send me some of the log files from the system? Choose to boot to a CMD prompt, copy the log files to a temp folder or onto removable media if available. This should get you back operational. Then send me the log file. Remove the online section from the email name listed here before sending darrellg online.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Same issue on my Dell laptop. I just left it on an went to bed. In the morning laptop was greeting me with the logon screen. I checked the version in computer properties, it said SP1. Then during shut down it got stuck for another hour or so with no apparent disk activity, saying "Configuring Updates" or something like that. After that everything seems OK. Just got off the phone with a microsoft advanced tech.
Then I tried unsucessfully to get Vista to either correct the problem or go back to a previous working state. Once this file was renamed I was able to get to my desktop, however since we know from the message displayed "configuring updates: stage 3 or 3" my machine has already been through 2 stages and therefore I have aborted a partially completed process.
So I will proceed with my use of this now "working" machine cautiously and I advise you do the same. Clearly, more must be done to complete this "FIX. I tried all the available options via the thread. None seem to be working very well for me. Do I need to speak with someone at Dell, or is there someone at Microsoft that can help me out? I encountered this problem on Friday and wound up losing all the data on my computer. They offered NO support for this issue and as a result all my data was lost.
No one cared All of the updates specifically state that you should back up your data before applying the update. I think it's a bit harsh to say that your data loss was tech support's responsibility - SOP is to back up all of your data before applying an update.
And generally speaking, though I'm not an OS expert, most data can be recovered via boot utilities such as Symantec Ghost. I would STRONGLY suggest backing up all important data before applying any OS service packs - there are a million possible system configurations out there, and the OS manufacturer in this case, Microsoft , can't possibly test it against every configuration.
My computer has been stuck on Step 3 of 3 for almst two weeks now. I have called acer, microsoft, and geeksquad. My laptop will startup, get stuck on the 3 of 3 page for about 30 to 45 seconds then shut its self down. I am a sr in high school and my sr paper is on there and I have to turn that in in one week. I was stupid and didnt make another copy of it. I need access to my computer. Turn your computer on. Follow on-screen instruction and let the Windows Update Troubleshoot run.
Now type the following commands to stop Windows Update Services and then hit Enter after each one:. Next, type the following command to rename SoftwareDistribution Folder and then hit Enter:. Finally, type the folowing command to start Windows Update Services and hit Enter after each one:. Type each of the following commands individually in cmd and hit Enter after each one:. Install the latest Windows Update Agent. Next, click Disable all which would disable all the other remaining services. In order to zero in on the particular software, you should enable a group of services refer the previous steps at a time then reboot your PC.
Keep doing this until you figure out a group of services which are causing this error then check the services under this group one by one until you find which one is causing the problem. Do not turn off your computer. Installing update 1 of 3…" "Working on updates. Installing updates of 1 of 3…" "Getting Windows ready. Don't turn off your computer. A much rarer cause for your screen being frozen is a mistake on Microsoft's part regarding the update itself.
Apart from these, there are other factors as well that can lead to such types of issues, such as-. You can follow the suggested solutions in this article. If a long time has passed before you installed your Windows updates, it may take more time to install all the updates than usual. So, you must wait patiently and give enough time to your Windows system to successfully install all the updates.
Depending on your hardware specifications, your system might take around 2 hours. Sometimes, the updates get stuck at a particular point and may take longer than 2 hours. Log on normally and continue installing the updates. Before doing this, make sure that there is a system restore point in the system.
Digging a little further by opening Windows Update from the Control Panel, we saw these four stuck updates total 9. Though it's possible that your stuck update may include different files, this solution will still work. Here's how to fix it:. It's a MB download, so it might take a few minutes over a slower connection.
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