Vista update loop.

Carforce · Jun 5th 2010, 8:16pm

okay, I think this is the right section I always forget.
So, a week last thursday my laptop did some automatic update and is now in a continuous loop. It gets to stage 3 of 3, waits about 10seconds then shuts down and restarts. I've tried the F8 reboot things, and a vista recovery disk - however neither has worked. I don't have a recovery point or back up disk.

If anyone has had this problem or knows of a way to fix it then I would appreciate it :).

Tomb · Jun 5th 2010, 8:32pm

Here are some links I found after doing a Google search.

Microsoft: Here's how to stop Vista update's endless reboot - Computerworld

social.technet.microsoft.com/F…6c-400c-aeee-bb00286d192a

Latest Vista Update stuck in Stage 3/restart loop

Carforce · Jun 6th 2010, 8:31am

Thanks, I think I've tried one of their suggestions already but I shall give the others a go. The only problem is that these articles are from 2008-2009, so I don't know if they are about a different problem to the one I have.

Matt · Jun 6th 2010, 2:33pm

Lol, Maybe it's an old update. Umm, try loading Safe Mode and if you can load it I would check to see what updates were last installed using Windows Update. If that fails, I can provide you my legit Windows Vista disc, the only problem id it's x64, and you're on x86 so it might not be helpful.

I was just checking up on what file is causing this and from what I've read "pending.xml" is the traitor, I'll do a few more checks over this, but if a simple delete can fix this and Safe Mode fails, we can also try Safe Mode with Command Prompt and I can help you through MSN on how to delete it with commands.

Carforce · Jun 6th 2010, 5:38pm

Okay, thanks Matt. I'll try the safe mode but I think I have tried it already if that fails I'll just msn you, if that's cool.

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