I am trying to recover from a faulty Windows 7 update, but seem to be stuck in an interminable loop, where even leaving the computer running overnight results in looping. The same following message appears in Normal, Safe, or Command Prompt Modes: 'Failure configuring Windows updates Reverting changes Do not turn off your computer'
There is hard drive activity and the looping icon which is active, but otherwise this is never ending. Does anyone have an idea on how to get out of this?
This was obviously written by a 14 year old but it seems to be credible..
"if your screen stuck on "failure to configure Windows update .."
Turn your computer off if its stuck in that loop wait 5secs turn back on press alt+f10 repeatedly til u get a screen that ask if u wanna troubleshoot click it and refresh or something like that click da one that only takes alil moment not hours
it worked for me.
OH, YEAH IT"S NOT FAKE "
found in the comments section of a youtube video. Good luck.
Please share your success if it works for others.
EC
Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not work; the ALT F10 key sequence is the 'restore factory' setting on ACER laptops (and perhaps others, but not Toshibas).
I tried repairing from a Windows recovery DVD, and eventually got the 'Windows cannot be repaired automatically' message. The laptop's recovery partition was removed, so the only option for now seems to reinstall Windows from a set of image disks, and do all the updates.
Thanks, I ended up doing a full upgrade install, using the W7 SP1 disk. This packs the old installation files and programs in the 'Windows.old' subdirectory, and deletes everything. Because of the interminable looping, none of the other suggestions in your web link could be implemented, since there was no control. Even a high level command prompt was unresponsive to SFC commands;''because an update reboot was pending'. For the record, I could have also recovered using a set of system image disks from the window repair console.
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