Eager to play a game yesterday, I decided to click the Stop button when performing a Windows update. Big mistake.
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\nYou think Windows would bow out of an upgrade gracefully. After all, there’s that damn button sitting there, which you can click and which supposedly stops the upgrade in progress.<\/p>\n
Granted, clicking the button did stop the upgrade. It “failed,” according to the log. But the computer started acting hinkey, so I restarted the beast.<\/p>\n
After looking at the “Starting Windows” screen sit still for 40 minutes, I decided that there was a problem. So I restarted the computer again.<\/p>\n
Windows was self-aware after the second restart, and asked me if I wanted to enter the Repair Windows option. I did.<\/p>\n
The Repair Windows screen sat there for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
SIDEBAR:<\/strong> Whenever the computer is busy, it’s tradition that it display a “busy thing,” which shows you that the computer is, indeed, still alive. Well, basically:<\/p>\n Busy Things Lie.<\/em><\/p>\n They’re just animations. They play no matter what. There is no actual activity associated with most progress bars and spinning doo-dads. They’re just animated image files that play over and over regardless. The computer could have twenty dozen threads spinning in infinite loops, and the busy thing keeps on spinning. It’s a lie!<\/p>\n END SIDEBAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Eventually I restarted the computer again, this time stabbing the F8 key to enter Safe Mode.<\/p>\n Safe Mode ran just fine, so I knew it was some other problem vexing the PC.<\/p>\n Restarting the system again brought it up. Yeah! But several programs failed to run.<\/p>\n Two more restarts, and an attempted System Restore, failed to fix things.<\/p>\n Finally, I had to re-install the Java SE thing (whatever it does), and that finally brought the computer back to the same state it was in before.<\/p>\n The icing on the weirdness cake is that it turns out the Windows Update \u2014 the one I attempted to abort \u2014 did, in fact, install. That must have been the odd thing that caused the PC to go down.<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n Word to the wise: Don’t stop a Windows update, even though there is a button there claiming you can do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eager to play a game yesterday, I decided to click the Stop button when performing a Windows update. Big mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}