System won't start up after update

I had over 25 updates to download and install because I didn't do it straight away knowing it would prompt me to shut my computer down every 4 hours - which I cant stand.


After about a week of getting annoyed with the "updates available" icon and text box which pops up, I decided to download the updates, but was not ready to restart the computer. I looked into how to disable those annoying pop ups letting you know your time is ticking down before Microsoft takes over your computer and shuts it down.

I went to the dos prompt and followed instructions I got from a website to disable the messages for 24 hours and my computer was still on the next day.


Last night, I finally shut down and then this morning when I went to turn on my computer it was stuck on the "windows is starting" screen for 10 min. I had no choice but to shut down my computer and when it came back on, I had the option of loading normally or loading with repair tool. I picked normal and it re-loaded to the same "starting windows" screen with nothing else happening. I again, manually shut it down and this time picked the option, "repair tool."


After 20 min, the repair tool told me it couldn't fix the start up problem and asked me if I want to system restore. I said "yes." This brought me back to yesterday, and it seemed to be ok, so I had to fix my anti virus which now was "off" due to the system restore and I then rebooted. It rebooted properly. I then went to download the updates again and upon reboot with the updates, when it got to the "windows is starting" screen, the same thing happened. It wouldn't move past it. I had to manually shut down again and do the repair tool again and system restore again to get back in.

By then, I knew the windows updates were my problem, but I didn't know which one, so I decided to try to download each one separately. After I downloaded the first one, it froze again upon reboot at the "windows is starting" screen. I didn't think I was just lucky in picking the right one first and it took me over and hour that last time to use the repair tool to get it to load to the desktop.

Now I'm afraid to load any windows updates because something in them is messing with my start up and if I can't get into my computer, I can't do anything about anything. I did reboot after this because again, my anti virus software was out of whack and rebooting after fixing it and that was not a problem.

It's only when I try to download any Microsoft updates do I have a problem with starting up. Aside from not ever getting an update again, what can I do to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Your post is very difficult to read because it's just one large block of text. If you had split it into small paragraphs it would have been easier to read and understand.

To start with why will it shut down your computer every 4 hours ? Depending on the updates you don't always have to do a reboot but it would be better to do a few at a time and reboot after each batch.

Have you run a virus scan lately to make sure you don't have any nasties hiding ?

Joan has given you good advice.

* Have you a System Restore Point created PRIOR to the problem you are having that you can roll back to?

* Have you a Win 7 Disk?

* Please list all your current Security software.

* Did your computer come with a preinstalled Anti Virus program?
If so what?

* Suggest you download the free version of Malwarebytes.
Update it immediately.
Run a full System Scan.
Let us know the results at the end.
Please download the free version of Malwarebytes.
Update it immediately.
Do a full system scan
Let us know the results at the end.

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Hi bellaneph

1. Do a SFC Scannow: SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker and restart upon finding violations.
2. Which updates you have tried to install?


This tutorial may be of some help Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot