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Windows 7 64 bit (Home?) stalled on update
On restart Windows Updates started installing. Has been sitting at update 47 of 111 for over 5 hours. Laptop has gone into screen saver, but has been running entire time.
I completed an HP System Restore about a week ago and downloaded all the Windows Updates at that time so should be coming from a pretty clean system.
HP recommended System Restore because laptop so slow at times as to be almost unusable and Hard Disk checked OK. Has been working well since then.
Programs whaich had been open were Norton 360, Microsoft Office 2010, Thunderbird Mail, Internet Explorer and Quicktax 2004. All were closed manually prior to restart. The restart was required as I had just entered the key code for Quicktax 2004. This was a program that I had not previously installed on Windows 7. No idea if this could cause a conflict with the update - just throwing out information that might be relevant.