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Installing Windows 7 Updates during Shutdown taking forever.

RiokennRiokenn Registered User regular
edited May 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm freaking out about this.

Last night around midnight I shutdown my computer after a pretty long while of just sleeping it. It had 16 updates it needed to preform. I'm all like ok this should be fine.

10 minutes later it was at 13 of 16. So I decided it would finish by the time I would wake up. 8 Hours later still on 13 of 16. But the mouse busy cursor is still circling and the dots you would see next to x of x are moving. So Im not sure if its actually working or stuck.

I am not sure what to do, I don't want to ruin the files by restarting it since the computer is telling me NOT to do that. Please help!

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    You'll be fine. Most likely it was an update to IE8 or 9 that requires you to click something and got hung up. Just power it off and power it back on and re-run updates.

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  • RiokennRiokenn Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Ok I will try that when I get back home. BUT...

    What should I do if I restart it and it immediately goes straight back to installing updates? I heard some people with that kind of problem with update hang ups.

    Also if I do manage to get back to the desktop menu, your telling me to install the updates without shutting it down correct?

    EDIT:Oh and thanks for the bit of info. I've calmed down a bit.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    If you get back to the desktop menu, go to windows update, see what installed and what failed, and re-run updates. If you restart and it hangs up again, google the updates that failed, see if they've got an incompatibility with one of your devices or any of your hardware, and hide that update until Windows fixes it.

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  • DraygoDraygo Registered User regular
    Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive your operating system is installed on. At least 10%.

  • RiokennRiokenn Registered User regular
    WELP.

    Came back home with the Computer already off. Turned it back on, finished some updates aaaaaaaaaaaaaand done. Says all of em were successful. My tech friend said it might have been a registry thing which I am not sure how to fix if something like this were to happen again.

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  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    Most of the time this is caused by an update catalog just not unpacking properly or loading in to ram. On forced shut down it'll normally fix itself. The worst thing that can happen if you fail to install updates is you end up having to either roll back the registry, or delete the downloaded update files. I've never seen an update hang -> force shut down kill an OS.

    I have however seen a service pack update->"oh god my computer shut off" kill an OS.

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