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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Changed the setting as requested and rebooted PC. Run check for updates and it stated there are 22 important updates. Clicked to install - it started then come up with a message that all failed. I checked the "update history" and basically all updates seem to fail every day. So I...
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- Post #26
- Apr 28, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Followed your instructions and have attached latest CBS zip file. Thanks again for all your help with this. Paul.
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- Post #24
- Apr 22, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, That definitely did something!! After deleting the value, I then run check for updates and it came back stating there were 22 important updates and 7 others. I got really excited and told it to install. It started the downloads and started the installs but then said 1 installed...
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- Post #22
- Apr 21, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, You had me worried then - please see attached. Thanks Paul.
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- Post #20
- Apr 21, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Now I am worried - I don't appear to have a components under this location - please see attached screen shot! many thanks Paul.
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- Post #18
- Apr 21, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Apologies for delays in getting these to you. Hopefully I have done these right - please find files attached (zipped up) Many thanks Paul.
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- Post #16
- Apr 19, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Apologies, this must be doing your head in - it is mine! I run the commands you listed above, but for each of the del statements nothing was found e.g. it stated: "Could Not Find C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\*.tm* None the less, I run all of them and tried again. As soon...
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- Post #14
- Apr 17, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Richard, Many thanks for your response and I will try your suggested next steps, but before I do, please can you confirm that the screenshot below is nothing to worry about - i.e. the error for the XML core services was the one that I was getting before and whenever I shut down, it would...
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- Post #12
- Apr 17, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Tom, Followed all the instructions and rebooted. I then run windows update and it started checking for updates (as usual), but came up with the same problem/message "Restart your computer to install important updates" So I restarted (but it did not install anything) and then I run windows...
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- Post #10
- Apr 16, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Tom, Apologies for the delay - it seems new dropbox accounts no longer have the public folder - you have to request this. Hopefully this link will work: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/163427194/COMPONENTS.zip Thanks Paul.
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- Post #8
- Apr 16, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi, Windows update is still going around in circles - I have attached a screen shot of my update history if it helps? If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Many thanks Paul.
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- Post #6
- Apr 11, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Tom, Here is the content of the file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TrustedInstaller] "BlockTime"=dword:00002a30 "BlockTimeIncrement"=dword:00000384 "PreshutdownTimeout"=dword:0036ee80...
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- Post #5
- Apr 10, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hi Tom, Many thanks for the quick response. I have attached the CBS zip as requested I do not have the Pending.xml file in the lactation you stated and have search my c drive and cannot find it. I did not expect a response so quick as I was just about to go to bed (it is 1:00am here in the UK...
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- Post #3
- Apr 9, 2013
- Forum: Windows Update
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Windows update going around in circles - telling me I must restart my computer

Hello, This is my first post so I hope I have done it correctly. I have a windows7 home premium service pack 1 64BIT system. This problem has been going on for a few weeks now - not sure when it actually started, but: When I run windows update, it processes for a while and the tells me to...
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- Apr 9, 2013
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- Forum: Windows Update

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