I received an auto-update for Windows 7 Pro this morning and had the 14 updates installed when I shut down. I tried the laptop later and it won't boot properly. It gets to the Windows logo but rather than go to the sign in page, it just reboots. It does this sequence over and over.
This is a laptop that I changed out the hard drive to a SSD. If I put the old drive back in, there's no problem booting. There's a blue error page that shows during the reboot sequence, but it's only every 3rd or 4th boot and only shows for a second or two, so I can't even read it.
Success. Through F8, I first tried Last Known Good Configuration (advanced), but that didn't work. I then tried booting in Safe Mode and it stuck while loading files. Then I got a blue screen that said Windows failed to upgrade properly, reverting to previous setup. It then allowed me to sign in and again said Windows failed to update properly, reverting to previous setup. Back in business now. Thanks!
Lesson learned. I've left everything up to them previously, but will now have them prompt me before installing. I'll set a restore point before the install manually. I thought this stuff was all supposed to be automated a few Windows operating systems ago.
Happy you got your computer back. BTW, if you don't want to get Windows 10 by accident or forced to install it, there is a program that removes the Knowledge Based file that triggers the "Update to Windows 10 for free now!"
Since Win 7 will be updated until 2020, I am in no hurry to change it yet. Nothing broken.
You could just look at each Windows Update individually. It's a pain in the ass. But it's what I did for a Win 7 laptop to avoid the telemetry updates and Win 10 nag screen.
The problem is, who knows which update will break things? Of the 14 updates that tried to install yesterday, 10 failed. They all installed properly today.
Last night I installed GWX Control Panel and it verified that my settings were still doing their intended job of avoiding all trace of Windows 10, as far as the developer of that app has been able to detect:
I appreciate the effort of developers like that so I donated.
Afterwards I ran Windows Update and it took a very long time with a lot of disk and network activity but network analysis showed that it was their typical update process. I read through the WU logs too and it was all typical. The Windows 7 consumer usage telemetry updates were still avoided. I am not seeing calls to strange IP addresses each and every time I perform some basic function in Windows 7, so it would seem that customer usage telemetry is still not present.
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