I woke up to exactly the same problem on BOTH my own Dell desktop and my
wife's Medion laptop this morning. Both PCs booted into an endless lop of
'Configuring updates, stage 3 of 3' after downloading yesterdays package of
updates.
I've got the PCs running again by booting from the Vista installation disk,
choosing repair my computer' and then the 'Use Windows Restore' option to go
back to the last restore point.
Both the PCs then booted normally. The next thing I did was to turn off
Windows update on both PCs until I can find the update that is the source of
my problem!
My question to everybody is which update caused the problem and how do I
install it successfully?
"Tom Walker" wrote:
> My son (away at university) has just installed this week's Microsoft updates
> and now is unable to get his laptop re-started (it's an Acer Aspire 5633
> about a year old).
>
> It says "Configuring Updates. Stage 3 of 3 0% Complete.
> Then it says "Shutting Down" and restarts the whole cycle. This goes on and
> on....
>
> He has tried to get it into Safe Mode but it won't, just goes back into the
> cycle described above.
>
> I've searched on Google and come up with only one hit - that described
> identical symptoms and was posted in a blog about three hours ago. There
> are some references to the same message related to SP1 installation but my
> son is just using the standard Microsoft Update service - not gone near SP1.
>
> Is anyone else getting this symptom and has anyone any ideas how to get out
> of it without wiping the whole machine?
>
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> Tom Walker
>
>
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