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Stuck on "preparing to configure Windows...", rebooted and all good?
I'm not sure if this belongs to here or "Windows update" section but I'll post it anyway.
Basically after disabling/unchecking internet explorer 10 and media features from "turn Windows features on or off", it prompted me to restart the system and ultimately I was stuck on that "preparing to configure..." page for three hours or so.
I got fed up with the waiting which I tried CTRL+ALT+delete to bring up login menu however it somehow froze the spinning wheel and I wasn't able to do anything.
As a result, I pressed the reset button (not holding down power button) and it booted normally with the usual safe mode options showing up due to force shut down. Before the welcome page showing up, there was a quick "reconfiguring Windows..." page which it only took couple of seconds until my desktop showed up.
I checked the "turn Windows features on or off" again and the boxes for those two settings were empty and thus got rid of IE, Windows media player and such from the start menu etc successfully.
So I guess everything went okay except for being stuck on the loading page and force shut down... I'm a bit worried about this new problem as I haven't experienced it before. Doing a quick search indicates that most of the time it happens during Windows update, which I haven't encountered yet as well.
I want to ask if this is something I need to worry about? Should I revert back to before making those changes via system restore? How do I prevent this problem from happening again in future?