Windows update nearly screwed my laptop

Not good!

from WinCustomize Forums

Auto updates worked fine for a while until today. There were 68 updates and it was stuck on number 41 for over two hours! Hell with that. I forced a shut down, restarted and the updates went through anyway. No fuss no bother. Then I changed the settings. Updates will download but I'll decide if they get installed. Shades of Win 10......

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

If you needed 68 updates that's a problem not related to 'windows update' specifically......

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting the_Monk, reply 1

If you needed 68 updates that's a problem not related to 'windows update' specifically......
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What the_Monk is saying is that 68 is such a number that it indicates you're not doing the updates in a more timely manner....;)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Updates will download but I'll decide if they get installed.
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I don't even go that far. I let it check but I decide if I want to download and install them. I don't auto update anything, MS or otherwise. ;)

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Looks like Uvah said he had updates set to automatically install.  68 does seem a big number if that was indeed the case.  Updates can come for other MS applications at the same time, though, not just OS updates - I've had updates numbering in the 20's not too uncommonly between the OS & MSOffice.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 2


Quoting the_Monk,
reply 1

If you needed 68 updates that's a problem not related to 'windows update' specifically......



What the_Monk is saying is that 68 is such a number that it indicates you're not doing the updates in a more timely manner....;)

End of Jafo's quote

 

Thanks Jafo (I suppose) for translating my perfectly clear English into 'american'?   ;)

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting the_Monk, reply 5

perfectly clear English
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Your "English" was fine, it was your wording that was somewhat nonspecific. :rolleyes:

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting the_Monk, reply 5

Thanks Jafo (I suppose) for translating my perfectly clear English into 'american'?
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Yep, I'm fluent in 3 languages....

English, Australian AND American...;)

[I get by in Canadian too]

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I check for updates weekly. What I did notice was the optional updates. That number has jumped to 81. I counted 16 updates for yesterday, 14 of them security updates. I've updated this machine three times since I got it yet I have the installed updates open in control panel and the only updates showing are the ones from yesterday. Other updates before them are from August 2014. It should show updates from June and July. Now its showing 61 important updates, all of them security.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

They did screw it up. Updates from as far back as June were not installed. Three months of updates accounts for the high number. The down side...it made my laptop next to useless. Did a system restore, that worked. Installing my programs, fine. Except photoshop. The installer fails to initialize and I tried it three times. So...no more PS. Boogers.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for the referrals.

 

 

*walks away not a happy camper*

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 9

The installer fails to initialize and I tried it three times
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Disabled AV and right click run as admin?

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nope. I'm out of options. PS is history.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"I found a solution after 2 days and 2 nights.


Just move the installation files to C:\CS5 and run setup from there.

Don't use white space in path name. "

 

Something I found with google....

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 13

Something I found with google....
End of Jafo's quote
  Google makes me smart. ;)

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Did that. Moved files to C:\CS5 (made a folder) still no go. What I'm getting a lot is that the installer detects a pending system restart even though I just turned it on. I even dl'd a trial version from Adobe and it encounters the same problem.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

Found this on a forum, Uvah:


Look at the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

and see if there is an entry for PendingFileRenameOperation

If so, you can try deleting this value.  By the way you should backup the key first....

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