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| Thread ID: 107741 | 2010-02-28 05:53:00 | Problem with Windows 7 laptop | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 862419 | 2010-02-28 05:53:00 | Last year I bought a Toshiba Satellite M300-900 laptop, which came with Vista Home Premium OS. In due course, I received an upgrade disk from Toshiba which allowed me to upgrade the OS to Windows 7 Home Premium. The time to upgrade took about 6-7 hours - I have moaned about this previously! My current problem is hassles when booting up (it takes a while), and at the moment particularly, when turning the machine off. The screen tells me that: 'Preparing to configure Windows Do not turn off your computer' And then sits like this for ages - apparently doing nothing. I am not the most patient person in the world - but this is driving me batty! :( What is the problem? What should I do? Advice would truely be appreciated! :) |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 862420 | 2010-02-28 06:09:00 | Did you install any updates recently? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 862421 | 2010-02-28 06:27:00 | Probably - happens automatically... | R.M. (561) | ||
| 862422 | 2010-02-28 07:11:00 | Have a look at your update history and see if anything there is marked as failed. It looks like automatic updates may be trying to install something. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 862423 | 2010-02-28 07:57:00 | All is now well. :) Patience is a virtue - and all of that rubbish! I was being too impatient. I will know better in the future - oh darn...:o |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 862424 | 2010-03-01 05:25:00 | Grrrrr! It's doing it again... There seems to be no pattern to it - sometimes does, sometimes doesn't. :( Now what??:thanks |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 862425 | 2010-03-01 05:48:00 | Run the updates manually, click start, type in update - select windows updates, see what happens. IF they are still playing silly buggers, go into C: \Windows --- Locate the SoftwareDistrubition folder, Delete it, reboot and try the manual update of windows again, Windows will automatically recreate the SoftwareDistrubition folder. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 862426 | 2010-03-01 06:26:00 | I couldn't update manually - basically nothing happened. When I looked at History - the last two updates have failed. When I tried deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder - it told me: 'The action can't be completed because the folder/file is open in another program - SoftwareDistribution' So - I'm no further ahead at this stage. :( |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 862427 | 2010-03-01 08:32:00 | Its possible windows update is still running in the background, thats why you cant delete the folder. You may have to disable the auto updates under the Windows Update settings ( Control Panel) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 862428 | 2010-03-01 17:22:00 | Ahh - I'll have another go when I get home tonight! :) | R.M. (561) | ||
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