Please do not Power off or unplug your machine

It is second time in this month.
When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
Installing Update 3 of 5

(Or Installing 5 of 5)

It will last forever,
The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.

I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
other program.
I do not know other person have some experience

Thanks

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:59 -0700, MXC wrote:

> It is second time in this month.
> When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
> Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
> Installing Update 3 of 5
>
> (Or Installing 5 of 5)
>
> It will last forever,
> The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.
>
> I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
> other program.
> I do not know other person have some experience
>
> Thanks

Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated. It
can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off manually
may have caused damage.

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:46:26 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:59 -0700, MXC wrote:
>
>> It is second time in this month.
>> When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
>> Please do not Power off or unplug your machine Installing Update 3 of 5
>>
>> (Or Installing 5 of 5)
>>
>> It will last forever,
>> The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start
>> windows.
>>
>> I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or
>> some other program.
>> I do not know other person have some experience
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated.
> It can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off
> manually may have caused damage.

How would you tell ;)

If waiting even one hour or a little more, OK
But after several hours I thought it might in dead loop
then I decided menually turned off windows and even I had to unplug the
machine.
After power on the window restarted and I did not find any other thing
wrong.


"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
news:r910itboi5i2.1l629nd0dron7.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:59 -0700, MXC wrote:
>
>> It is second time in this month.
>> When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
>> Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
>> Installing Update 3 of 5
>>
>> (Or Installing 5 of 5)
>>
>> It will last forever,
>> The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.
>>
>> I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
>> other program.
>> I do not know other person have some experience
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated. It
> can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off
> manually
> may have caused damage.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

You can learn more about updates here. And, as Gene said, we've all
gone through this.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dow...dowsvista.mspx


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OK, several hours is definitely bad, and I would've done the same as you
did. There's really no other choice at that point. And I would have scanned
for damage afterwards (chkdsk and fsk, for example).

I'm glad it came out OK. Scary... (or should I say :scary:?)

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:39:46 -0700, MXC wrote:

> If waiting even one hour or a little more, OK
> But after several hours I thought it might in dead loop
> then I decided menually turned off windows and even I had to unplug the
> machine.
> After power on the window restarted and I did not find any other thing
> wrong.
>
>
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
> news:r910itboi5i2.1l629nd0dron7.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:59 -0700, MXC wrote:
>>
>>> It is second time in this month.
>>> When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
>>> Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
>>> Installing Update 3 of 5
>>>
>>> (Or Installing 5 of 5)
>>>
>>> It will last forever,
>>> The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.
>>>
>>> I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
>>> other program.
>>> I do not know other person have some experience
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated. It
>> can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off
>> manually
>> may have caused damage.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom


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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

I experienced another two, Both keep me waiting about 10 hours.
Then I checked windows update history and just told me it was update
security update for VS and end up with "failed".
Then I downloaded this upate and run it under winows, only took some
minites and end up with success


"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
news:r910itboi5i2.1l629nd0dron7.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:59 -0700, MXC wrote:
> second time in this month.
>> When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
>> Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
>> Installing Update 3 of 5
>>
>> (Or Installing 5 of 5)
>>
>> It will last forever,
>> The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.
>>
>> I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
>> other program.
>> I do not know other person have some experience
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated. It
> can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off
> manually
> may have caused damage.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

[CaPnK]

Originally Posted by lemur

You can learn more about updates here. And, as Gene said, we've all
gone through this.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dow...dowsvista.mspx


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I am sorry but that link didn't tell us anything about this problem in this thread. I waited for a full 48 hours before I finally shut it down. I then did a system restore and checked updates again, only to be going through this same crap again.

[EINSTEIN_007]

Originally Posted by CaPnK

I am sorry but that link didn't tell us anything about this problem in this thread. I waited for a full 48 hours before I finally shut it down. I then did a system restore and checked updates again, only to be going through this same crap again.

Have you tried to system restore in safe mode, to eliminate the problem? If not then follow the below method by login into safe mode:

1. Click Start, type system restore in the Start Search box or Search programs and files, and then click System Restore under the Programs section.
   • If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.
2. On the System Restore page, click Next.
3. Select a restore point at which you know that the operating system was working, and then click Next.
   • The restore point should be a date before the first time that you experienced the problem that is described in the "Symptoms" section. To select a date, use the Choose a different restore point option, and then click Next.
4. If you are prompted to specify the disk to restore, select the hard disk on which the operating system is installed, and then click Next.
5. On the Confirm your restore point page, click Finish.
6. When the restoration process is complete, click Restart.