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I had the Vista reboot for a day. I tried Safe Mode and got hung at crcdisk.sys. I noticed a couple of interesting things, and now I have my computer back--I thought it was dead forever.
1). If you shut your computer down when you see the "Configuring Updates" screen, when you boot up again you will see the useless options to boot in safe mode.
2). If you shut your computer down shortly after you start it up, you should get different options: to either Launch Repair, or to Start Windows Normally. Choose Launch Repair.
3). I didn't watch the Launch Repair process the first time, and it didn't work. But by the third time I tried it, about 30 seconds in it asked me if I wanted to do a System Restore. Yes!!
4). When my computer restarted, the blue screen stated that it was back to Stage 1: Installing updates. It immediately skipped back to Configuring updates, and got stuck in the loop.
5). I got back into Launch Repair and did the same System Restore, but this time I didn't wait for the blue screen to load up. I shut the computer down shortly after starting it up, and if I recall correctly, it was at that point that I was offered a whack of new options. I chose system restore (there was also the option to go to a command prompt--finally!), and the two restore points I was offered were a day before the loop fiasco.
6). Ah, mon dieu. Everything booted up, I have my life back! The Word files I was working on look good. It just seems to be a matter of major patience and not giving up--your computer is not wrecked. Hang in there!
1). If you shut your computer down when you see the "Configuring Updates" screen, when you boot up again you will see the useless options to boot in safe mode.
2). If you shut your computer down shortly after you start it up, you should get different options: to either Launch Repair, or to Start Windows Normally. Choose Launch Repair.
3). I didn't watch the Launch Repair process the first time, and it didn't work. But by the third time I tried it, about 30 seconds in it asked me if I wanted to do a System Restore. Yes!!
4). When my computer restarted, the blue screen stated that it was back to Stage 1: Installing updates. It immediately skipped back to Configuring updates, and got stuck in the loop.
5). I got back into Launch Repair and did the same System Restore, but this time I didn't wait for the blue screen to load up. I shut the computer down shortly after starting it up, and if I recall correctly, it was at that point that I was offered a whack of new options. I chose system restore (there was also the option to go to a command prompt--finally!), and the two restore points I was offered were a day before the loop fiasco.
6). Ah, mon dieu. Everything booted up, I have my life back! The Word files I was working on look good. It just seems to be a matter of major patience and not giving up--your computer is not wrecked. Hang in there!
Disregard everything else.. heres the fix:
MANUAL FIX TO WINDOWS UPDATE LOOP
1. Insert the Recovery/Install DVD into the computer
2. Boot off of the DVD. When you first start your computer, the first screen you see should give you the key combination to press to enter a 'multi-boot' menu. On Dell's this key is F12 but it varries by each manufacturer. Once you find it and are at the multiboot menu, choose to boot of CD/DVD
3. When prompted (after it has booted to the CD/DVD) choose "repair my computer" and enter the command prompt
4. Type C: (with colon) and press enter
5. Then type cd c:\windows\winsxs and press enter
6. Then type del pending.xml and press enter
7. Restart your computer
That should kill any pending updates.
All that other advice about safemode and recovery, switching memory sticks, launching to last known config... does not work!!!! But the directions above do. I know, I tried everything.. this advice above actually worked, and I didnt have to reset to defaults, or reformat.
Good luck everyone, Microsoft better get their shit together or they just lost another customer to Mac.
MANUAL FIX TO WINDOWS UPDATE LOOP
1. Insert the Recovery/Install DVD into the computer
2. Boot off of the DVD. When you first start your computer, the first screen you see should give you the key combination to press to enter a 'multi-boot' menu. On Dell's this key is F12 but it varries by each manufacturer. Once you find it and are at the multiboot menu, choose to boot of CD/DVD
3. When prompted (after it has booted to the CD/DVD) choose "repair my computer" and enter the command prompt
4. Type C: (with colon) and press enter
5. Then type cd c:\windows\winsxs and press enter
6. Then type del pending.xml and press enter
7. Restart your computer
That should kill any pending updates.
All that other advice about safemode and recovery, switching memory sticks, launching to last known config... does not work!!!! But the directions above do. I know, I tried everything.. this advice above actually worked, and I didnt have to reset to defaults, or reformat.
Good luck everyone, Microsoft better get their shit together or they just lost another customer to Mac.
"Disregard everything else.. heres the fix:
MANUAL FIX TO WINDOWS UPDATE LOOP
1. Insert the Recovery/Install DVD into the computer
2. Boot off of the DVD. When you first start your computer, the first screen you see should give you the key combination to press to enter a 'multi-boot' menu. On Dell's this key is F12 but it varries by each manufacturer. Once you find it and are at the multiboot menu, choose to boot of CD/DVD
3. When prompted (after it has booted to the CD/DVD) choose "repair my computer" and enter the command prompt
4. Type C: (with colon) and press enter
5. Then type cd c:\windows\winsxs and press enter
6. Then type del pending.xml and press enter
7. Restart your computer
That should kill any pending updates.
All that other advice about safemode and recovery, switching memory sticks, launching to last known config... does not work!!!! But the directions above do. I know, I tried everything.. this advice above actually worked, and I didnt have to reset to defaults, or reformat.
Good luck everyone, Microsoft better get their shit together or they just lost another customer to Mac.
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This actually worked for me. Thank you. All the other suggestions did nothing.
MANUAL FIX TO WINDOWS UPDATE LOOP
1. Insert the Recovery/Install DVD into the computer
2. Boot off of the DVD. When you first start your computer, the first screen you see should give you the key combination to press to enter a 'multi-boot' menu. On Dell's this key is F12 but it varries by each manufacturer. Once you find it and are at the multiboot menu, choose to boot of CD/DVD
3. When prompted (after it has booted to the CD/DVD) choose "repair my computer" and enter the command prompt
4. Type C: (with colon) and press enter
5. Then type cd c:\windows\winsxs and press enter
6. Then type del pending.xml and press enter
7. Restart your computer
That should kill any pending updates.
All that other advice about safemode and recovery, switching memory sticks, launching to last known config... does not work!!!! But the directions above do. I know, I tried everything.. this advice above actually worked, and I didnt have to reset to defaults, or reformat.
Good luck everyone, Microsoft better get their shit together or they just lost another customer to Mac.
Read more"
This actually worked for me. Thank you. All the other suggestions did nothing.
i tried the steps above, but after typing "del pending.xml" the computer says it can not find that file, upon rebooting, still stuck in loop. I have even tried booting in safe mode, it is also stuck in update loop, I have tried anything and everything that is out there on the net in regards to this issue, and nothing worked. so tried booting from the vista disk, it took FOREVER for the system restore tool to come up, and since there had been multiple updates over the last month and a half, I chose to restore at a point when a java update was applied -- which put me taking the computer all the way back to mid sept, but this option worked, and I went into the desktop, looked for that file (pending.xml) was not found, so I created a new restore point then went to microsoft's website using this link http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15287 - downloaded this update by itself and then proceeded to manually update files, in groups (ie office together, security together etc), and before I turned the computer off made a backup disc in case, and created a new restore point. may be a lot of extra work, but pretty bad this issue has been going on since 2008 and microsoft hasnt come out with a fix it file that can be downloaded from another computer and inserted into the affected computer's cd/dcd drive and fix the issue. (i only just now developed the problem after upgrading the hard drive size, so I had slowly gotten to the crap update that created this problem in the first place.. knock wood, so far so good
Take your PC and throw it out of the window.
Microsoft sucks
Microsoft sucks
my Packard Bell EasyNote came with vista, and ive been installing updates for ages. I recently installed some more updates but my laptop ran out of battery halfway through configuring. Every time I boot, I get:
Configuring Updates 3 of 3 ..... 0%
and then it restartes and does the same thimg again. I have no Windows Vista DVD. Where can I get one, and do I even need one?
Configuring Updates 3 of 3 ..... 0%
and then it restartes and does the same thimg again. I have no Windows Vista DVD. Where can I get one, and do I even need one?
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Hi guyz,
Its really bad to see that computers come up with probs after you install updates..
However if that doesnt help or does no good.. its of no meaning keeping that update.
So you can try tapping F8 while computer is booting up and select safe mode..
go to control panel and select view installed updates and uninstal the updates that was instaled on the date your comp started coming up with the issue. Restart the computer and should work fine, if its because of the update
Try this should work fine... ;-)
Its really bad to see that computers come up with probs after you install updates..
However if that doesnt help or does no good.. its of no meaning keeping that update.
So you can try tapping F8 while computer is booting up and select safe mode..
go to control panel and select view installed updates and uninstal the updates that was instaled on the date your comp started coming up with the issue. Restart the computer and should work fine, if its because of the update
Try this should work fine... ;-)
sorry for all the posts but just letting everyone know what worked for me...
I reinstalled the Windows updates and the 3 of 3 0% screen of death popped up againg during the reboot but quickly jumped to 100% and everything worked fine......... so far.......
I reinstalled the Windows updates and the 3 of 3 0% screen of death popped up againg during the reboot but quickly jumped to 100% and everything worked fine......... so far.......
Ok here is how you fix this problem.... If your pc doesn't work after installing windows update, It's mainly because there could've been an error while windows was updating new protection software,, So what you do is....
Go to safe mode... Resotre system to : before installing updates.. After this windows will try to re=install the update once again.. and the same problem shouldn't happen again...
Hope this helps.
Go to safe mode... Resotre system to : before installing updates.. After this windows will try to re=install the update once again.. and the same problem shouldn't happen again...
Hope this helps.
hi Quasarz!!
I've got the same problem.Im trying to restore it as you say with different modes,but does not work.Get stuck configuring the stage 3,then the laptop shut down,shut on and again the same screen trying to configure the damn stage.as never star up,i can do anyhing at all,and dowload a windows repair tools, but doesn work neither.
Please could you tell if I've got any possibility to repair it???
Please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot in advance!!
Sonia
I've got the same problem.Im trying to restore it as you say with different modes,but does not work.Get stuck configuring the stage 3,then the laptop shut down,shut on and again the same screen trying to configure the damn stage.as never star up,i can do anyhing at all,and dowload a windows repair tools, but doesn work neither.
Please could you tell if I've got any possibility to repair it???
Please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot in advance!!
Sonia
ok, if it got stuck in 3.. It means Something with the hardware... What you might want to do is.... (this is an Advance) Open your pc.. Remove the ram, and Place it back in. The computer keeps on freezing becuase the Memory ram is pilleed up with some virus, So you might want to either, Reboot your computer, or Upgrade the ram.
in the mean while try Removing it and Replacing it back it. it should be ok.
in the mean while try Removing it and Replacing it back it. it should be ok.
hey don't know if u fix that problem with ur pc update problem I had the same problem and I was able to fix it and it work I downloaded the vista recovery and use utorrent to download the files. then used Iso Recorder v3 to burn onto disc. then re-boot pc and boot from cd at first it did like the system recovery did. then it did the same update problem then I try again and got and list of options heres a link to see what im talking about http://www.downloadsquad.com/...
and then I pick the earliest restore point and it worked
link to vista restore
https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
link to utorrent
https://www.utorrent.com/downloads
hope this helps
and then I pick the earliest restore point and it worked
link to vista restore
https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
link to utorrent
https://www.utorrent.com/downloads
hope this helps
I was updating a Vista system that didn't even have SP1 installed. After updating to SP1 computer rebooted, but while booting up it got blue screen of death. I rebooted again and tried to use option to repair statup. It didn't work. Then I booted up with Vista CD and chose to repair installation. The system could not even see any Windows installations present on the computer. That puzzeled me.
After trying variety of different stuff, here is what fixed it (you need Win XP CD and Win Vista CD):
1. Boot up with Win XP CD!
2. Chose Repair Windows using Recovery Console
3. In command prompt type fixboot and enter
4. Type chkdsk /r
5. After checkdisk is done, boot up with Vista CD. (If you boot up without CD, you will get an "Missing NTLDR file" error)
6. Chose Repair Installation. Miraculously now system sees a Vista installation present on the system.
7. Chose Vista installation from the choices on the disk and Next.
8. Chose Repair Startup. It took less then a second for the repair process to finish.
9. Restart. Now you should be able to boot up normally.
I did this twice on the same system after two consecutive Windows installations messed up startup. You should not have this problem after SP2 installation. I hope it will work for your system too.
Thanx Microsoft for "flawless Vista updates"!
After trying variety of different stuff, here is what fixed it (you need Win XP CD and Win Vista CD):
1. Boot up with Win XP CD!
2. Chose Repair Windows using Recovery Console
3. In command prompt type fixboot and enter
4. Type chkdsk /r
5. After checkdisk is done, boot up with Vista CD. (If you boot up without CD, you will get an "Missing NTLDR file" error)
6. Chose Repair Installation. Miraculously now system sees a Vista installation present on the system.
7. Chose Vista installation from the choices on the disk and Next.
8. Chose Repair Startup. It took less then a second for the repair process to finish.
9. Restart. Now you should be able to boot up normally.
I did this twice on the same system after two consecutive Windows installations messed up startup. You should not have this problem after SP2 installation. I hope it will work for your system too.
Thanx Microsoft for "flawless Vista updates"!
I have followed the discussion as I also had the problem by installing the windows vista service pack 1 and then thereafter NOT being able to start my computer at all. I tried to restore to earlier point by using windows system restore from my windows vista DVD, but without luck. Then I tried to repair it also using my Windows vista DVD, and this helped me, after that I was able to restart windows vista as earlier.
But you must use a windows vista CD/DVD because not even restart in safe mode where possible, because the system crashes before entering start-up of vista.
It´s typhical microsoft to release an update which destroys the computer, basicly i´m feed up with service packs that dosen´t work.
But you must use a windows vista CD/DVD because not even restart in safe mode where possible, because the system crashes before entering start-up of vista.
It´s typhical microsoft to release an update which destroys the computer, basicly i´m feed up with service packs that dosen´t work.
Hi. I had the same prob. but I got mine working, I would like to share! Ok, first of all my problem was that when someone had turned off my computer, it came on and it said, Configuring Updates 3 of 3 0% and would restart over and over again. so I was like steaming when it did it all night, well, I figured out that I should try safe mode and no luck just restart. well, I pushed F8 over and over til a screen came up... click next, then a screen of lists should come up click the SECOND one. it should have you do stuff to do like a scan and then you restart it then it works, NO MONEY OR NOTHING! I hope that many of you having the same problem will be resolved by me hopefully! this was a vista basic computer btw. well good luck to all!
Ok, here is what I did and it worked.... hit F8 during boot, select repair computer at the top and then I did a system restore to 2 days ago, right before the auto windows update ran and F-ed everything up. Things looks good but my NortonIS is having some issues, and when I hit the fix now button it doesn't fix it.... oh well, at least I'm back up and running so hope this helps someone else.
ok now what u can do is if you have the windows xp cd run a repair installation and everything will be back
this is te link to do a repair https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-repair-windows-xp-2000-if-you-are-unable-to-boot-into-windows.8356/ and the best part is you will not loose any of trhe data.
regards rahul
this is te link to do a repair https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-repair-windows-xp-2000-if-you-are-unable-to-boot-into-windows.8356/ and the best part is you will not loose any of trhe data.
regards rahul
Since I have the deep freeze installed in my computer, to update my windows, I selected "thawed for the next restart" and restarted my computer. Then I started to update, which was going fine. The computer restarted and since I had the "thawed for the next restart" on, this time, it was "frozen", and did not allow the windows to finish installing. The computer would not boot, and I tried the windows recovery and it doesn't work. Does anyone know what to do?
Same here.. I have selected the same option to thaw on next 1 restart.. update windows and computer restarts to windows configuration stages and tried to restarts itself again after completing the configurations. Since I only thawed on next 1 restart, it means that windows is doing it's configuration stages on a frozen stage which was being wiped clean of the updates when it is done. Now the computer is stuck at configuration stage and keep restarting. Please advice.
Make sure you don't have anything hooked up via USB. Couldn't figure why it wouldn't boot after restart then I realized my iPod was charging. I disconnected, restarted and it worked fine.
Hey,
Recently had the same issue with Vista too. I read some where else that if you install the Vista SP1 Service Pack and then try to install your updates after that, it would work. I tried it and have finally had some luck. Hope this works!
Recently had the same issue with Vista too. I read some where else that if you install the Vista SP1 Service Pack and then try to install your updates after that, it would work. I tried it and have finally had some luck. Hope this works!
I don't have that option under safe mode... only "with networlng" or "with commnad prompt". Neither works. "Last configuration" won't boot either. I can't even get to system restore.
When ask to choose from, Safe mode, With Network, or Command promp.. Choose... either, Safe mode. or Safe mode with Network" Either... What you want is, to go into windows. Remember safe mode, Is running the basic Files needed to start windows. Once in windows.. Go to START. Then go to system restore. And choose to restore before the installation was launch. Hope that helps.
I have tried safe mode and safe with networking, I still cannot get onto my laptop in order to go to system restore. I do not have a disc. I have tried all options on starting the computer, and it just goes back to configuration. ARRRRR! This is really pissing me off, as there are very important documents on here.
I am having the same problem. I have tried f8 , I have tried safe mode, I have taken the battery out and let it set for 24 hours nothing works it still will not start I just get a blue screen.
It sounds like an update has got stuck
To fix this you need a Vista DVD to boot from (If not use this Vista Recovery CD Avilabale from here... https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ )
Once you have booted up with the Vista DVD / Recovery Disc
Hit Repair Options and select command prompt
Now type in
C:
cd Windows\WinSXS
del pending.xml
This one worked first GO. Boot disk commnad prompt c: cd cindows cd winsxs and del pendingf.xls
This should fix it.
Regards
bOing
(Worked for me neatly. Hope it helps everyone!)
(source: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/619863-vista-configuring-updates-3-of-3-shutting-down-configuring-upda/
To fix this you need a Vista DVD to boot from (If not use this Vista Recovery CD Avilabale from here... https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ )
Once you have booted up with the Vista DVD / Recovery Disc
Hit Repair Options and select command prompt
Now type in
C:
cd Windows\WinSXS
del pending.xml
This one worked first GO. Boot disk commnad prompt c: cd cindows cd winsxs and del pendingf.xls
This should fix it.
Regards
bOing
(Worked for me neatly. Hope it helps everyone!)
(source: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/619863-vista-configuring-updates-3-of-3-shutting-down-configuring-upda/
May 7, 2011 at 12:31 PM
I am a yearbook adviser at a school and we had
most of our book on the computer and I was panicked.
Thanks again.
May 8, 2011 at 03:10 AM