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Failure configuring windows updates Reverting changes...
Do not turn off your computer. I have been stuck in this loop since this past Sunday. I am running a Dell OptiPlex 745 with windows 7 pro 64bit. I had been doing some cleaning and updating of drivers and software, windows updates were not included in this, and everything was fine, until one of my programs started acting strange. I shut it down and decided to just do a restore. Everything went great until I got to the restart your computer part. When it came back up it was doing the thing about please wait while...and then jumped to the failure and reverting message. t was late so I left it be until the next m orning, when --- it is still reverting. I did some research and tried a few things, mostly with command prompt. But first I did the repair your computer thing. No joy. I tried the scan sfc only to get yet another error There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart windows and run sfc again. Of course I'm getting the initial msg again. It does the same in all safe modes. I did a chkdsk from the command prompt, some corrupted system files were found and repaired. No change on my initial problem. I did dism.exe to clean up image and revertpendingactions, but no image was found. I did this on both c and d drive. I tried deleting reboot.xml and pending.xml. I looked for a rebootpending in the registry-wasn't there. I tried every suggestion I found out there. No joy. I have pretty much resigned myself to re-installing my OS, unless someone knows a solution. Oh, yet another trial hit me yesterday. I need to find my ID tag, and when I tried to get back to the command prompt via F8, the option for repairing my computer, which had been getting me to the command prompt is no longer there. So now I'm realllly stuck. The desktop all this is happening on was refurbished and the ID tag on the side of it is for the OS, which was previously installed (xp). Needless to say I don't have a recovery disk. The OS I have is genuine ms, just need to find the ID tag. Any help anyone might have for me will be greatly appreciated.