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-> wrote in message
news:...
> 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-> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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-> wrote in message
news:...
> 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

My laptop has been "stuck" in Installing update 10 of 17 for over 2 hours. What do I do?