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Acer Aspire 5349-2899 locked "Setup is installing services"
My grandkids destroyed their computer. Don't know what they did but getting "setup is starting services" and it's frozen. Am not able to get past it. Did try one suggestion:
On the same error screen press SHIFT+F10 and it will open up a black Window. (a command prompt window) 2) In the black windows type the word "regedit"(without the inverted commas and hit enter. That will open the registry editor. In the Registry Editor.. Browse to.... HKLocal machine/SYSTEM/SETUP/STATUS/ChildCompletion, and after highlighting childcompletion,on the right hand side check for setup.exe. if the value is 1 change it to 3.(by double clicking on setup.exe and changing the value shown in the box). Then close the registry editor and then also close the black window. Then click on OK for the error and the computer will restart and the installation may complete.
This did not work. The kids did not make backup discs either. To avoid this nonsense in the future I purchased OEM version of Windows 7 Home Prem 7 SPI 64-bit. I figured I would just changed the boot sequence to CD-ROM and just do a clean install with the new disc.
Lots of luck, it accesses the disc, but still does "Setup is installing services" and freezes there. Apparently, it's still trying to do a recovery? I don't know how to get around this. Any ideas? Would getting a new hard drive (more money down the drain) and then do a new install get me out of this mess?
Have no interest in saving anything on this computer so data loss is not a problem.
Currently has Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition.
Thanks for any help.