I FINALLY GOT THE PIECE OF CRAP TO BOOT UP AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WITH THE SAFE BOOT REPAIR MODE!

How do I shut off the automatic update feature?

Thanks for all the help.









When I fired up my laptop this morning it gave me the following message:

"Configuring Updates stage 1 of 3"

Updates 1 and 2 processed fine, but it won't complete update 3. I get the following message:

"Configuring Update stage 3 of 3 - 0% Complete" " Do not turn off your computer"

This message stays on the monitor for 4-5 minutes and then the computer will cycle as if it's doing the normal
boot up. Then the same message appears on the monitor again:

Configuring Update stage 3 of 3 - 0% Complete" " Do not turn off your computer"

It's been cycling through this same process for over 2 hours. I did a forced shutdown, but the same message popped up again when it powered up and it's been doing the same thing for the past 30 minutes.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, it's Microsuck Vista

Well since it is "Miscrosuck", then I guess that is all the help you need.









Try safemode, F8 and roll back to an older install.

maybe a possible bad harddrive. try hitting f8 before the windows screen comes up and select run the last known good configuration.

No luck...there goes all of my financial data for the past 6 months

Always back up your important data to an external harddrive or to an online storage. I use Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/

How about booting in safe mode and just opening the action center under updates and cancel the particular update that is giving you issues?
Speed

 

I have an external drive that crash last week. Ironically, I fired up my laptop this morning to backup my financial data to a new external drive I bought last night...what are the odds...

I'll give it a try.

Time to call in a favor from a nerdy friend.  Your data can be recovered.  I just saved my sisters data by booting linux from her cd drive.  I accessed her windows data, saved it, and then fixed her screwed up windows OS.

Those nerdy friends can come in handy sometimes.

I'm going to download a Vista recovery disc. How do I find out if I need the vista 32bit or vista 64 bit recovery cd?

turn it off and back on. You may have lost your signal somewhere along the way.

Boot to safe mode, turn off automatic updates and back up your data.

Hopefully you take care of your "nerdy" friend.