Hi and thanks in advance for your help!
I am helping a friend with a Dell XPS 8300 tower with Windows 7 Pro SP1. When he gave it to me, "Windows failed to start" black screen. I ran MemTest and found one of four 2GB sticks of RAM gone bad. Replaced it. Ran ChkDsk and it fixed a bunch of stuff and now Windows boots.
Prior to the "Windows failed to start" issue, File Explorer was crashing with Visual C++ Runtime error. I was able to isolate this as an Explorer plugin from McAfee Backup and disable it. Now File Explorer works normally.
The final issue, that I have not resolved, is Windows Update May 2018 Rollup KB4103718 getting almost complete but then hanging forever during the installation (not post-reboot configuration). I have to stop the WU service and reboot, after which it gets offered again in Windows Update.
I tried renaming the SoftwareDistribution folder and then Windows Update was offering previous monthly rollup(s), so maybe they never got installed either? (Again, not my PC, helping a friend.)
*** I just uninstalled McAfee Total Protection, rebooted, ran the McAfee Removal Tool, then rebooted, then...
I tried installing KB4103718 from the MSU via:
expand {update name}.msu -f:* C:\temp
DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:C:\temp\{update name}.cab
Here is the result:
C:\~KB4103718Hangs\ExpandedMSU>DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:.\Windows6.1-KB4103718-x64.cab
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Image Version: 6.1.7601.18489
Processing 1 of 1 - Adding package Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~
~7601.24136.1.4
[==========================100.0%========================= ] An error occurred -
Package_for_RollupFix Error: 0x800706be
Error: 1726
The remote procedure call failed.
The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
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C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of th
em.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log
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I ran SFCFix (twice, once w/o Windows 7 DVD, then I inserted a Window DVD):
I will paste SFCFix results into separate posts.
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CBS.zip Download Page Link: Download CBS.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
I am helping a friend with a Dell XPS 8300 tower with Windows 7 Pro SP1. When he gave it to me, "Windows failed to start" black screen. I ran MemTest and found one of four 2GB sticks of RAM gone bad. Replaced it. Ran ChkDsk and it fixed a bunch of stuff and now Windows boots.
Prior to the "Windows failed to start" issue, File Explorer was crashing with Visual C++ Runtime error. I was able to isolate this as an Explorer plugin from McAfee Backup and disable it. Now File Explorer works normally.
The final issue, that I have not resolved, is Windows Update May 2018 Rollup KB4103718 getting almost complete but then hanging forever during the installation (not post-reboot configuration). I have to stop the WU service and reboot, after which it gets offered again in Windows Update.
I tried renaming the SoftwareDistribution folder and then Windows Update was offering previous monthly rollup(s), so maybe they never got installed either? (Again, not my PC, helping a friend.)
*** I just uninstalled McAfee Total Protection, rebooted, ran the McAfee Removal Tool, then rebooted, then...
I tried installing KB4103718 from the MSU via:
expand {update name}.msu -f:* C:\temp
DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:C:\temp\{update name}.cab
Here is the result:
C:\~KB4103718Hangs\ExpandedMSU>DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:.\Windows6.1-KB4103718-x64.cab
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Image Version: 6.1.7601.18489
Processing 1 of 1 - Adding package Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~
~7601.24136.1.4
[==========================100.0%========================= ] An error occurred -
Package_for_RollupFix Error: 0x800706be
Error: 1726
The remote procedure call failed.
The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
==============================================================
==============================================================
C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of th
em.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log
==============================================================
==============================================================
I ran SFCFix (twice, once w/o Windows 7 DVD, then I inserted a Window DVD):
I will paste SFCFix results into separate posts.
==============================================================
==============================================================
CBS.zip Download Page Link: Download CBS.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way