I am working on a customers laptop, and got rid off the problems it came in with (seizing to a stop as soon as he logged on). As a favour, I let the outstanding updates install. First of all the updates stuck at 99% updating for an age. But eventually it went into the restating phase, and stuck there forever. After a few restarts, it decided that the updates had failed, and started backing them out. This took a long time, and eventually it got in the restarting phase, and stuck there forever again.<\/p>\n
This turned into an endless loop, each restart went through the same process.<\/p>\n
In the end, I forced it into the automatic repair function, by powering down as soon as the windows logo appears – twice is the magic number.
\nAutomatic repair of course failed (has it ever worked for anyone?), but I then went into the troubleshooting options, and restarted in safe mode. After a brief foray into completing the updates, windows 10 started in safe mode successfully. This gives me the option of documenting what apps and programs are loaded so that if a rebuild or reset is finally required, I at least can get somewhere close to what was there before.<\/p>\n
Restart again from safe mode into normal mode, and it starts fine, but the original problems are back! Just 3 days taken so far! At least I have a machine that starts again!<\/p>\n
The seizing issue may be connected with the updates issue, I will work on that assumption for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am working on a customers laptop, and got rid off the problems it came in with (seizing to a stop as soon as he logged on). As a favour, I let the outstanding updates install. First of all the …<\/p>\n