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A few days ago i noticed an update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1. I tried to install it today, it worked fine right up to the moment it asks to reboot the computer. Then after rebooting it starts up as normal update procedure however as it gets to 99% on Configuring Service Pack, it fails and I am left stuck at "Failure Configuring Service Pack, reverting changes. Please do not turn off your computer" for over 10 minutes then shuts down. Then on Bootup i notice nothing has changed and the same thing repeats. Please Help
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Ok guys after weeks of not replying back after i forgot bout this question, i have managed to get it working, but that was a few months after my laptop broke in which i had to reset to factory settings, which reset all the system updates done to the laptop, then when i tried installing IE 9 and Windows 7 service pack 1 they both succeeded without issues. Guess the whole problem the entire time was a faulty update
A few days ago i noticed an update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1. I tried to install it today, it worked fine right up to the moment it asks to reboot the computer. Then after rebooting it starts up as normal update procedure however as it gets to 99% on Configuring Service Pack, it fails and I am left stuck at "Failure Configuring Service Pack, reverting changes. Please do not turn off your computer" for over 10 minutes then shuts down. Then on Bootup i notice nothing has changed and the same thing repeats. Please Help
this is annoying time consuming and disappointing as this is microsoft and should be easy and realiable it is obiviousley not , bad products should not be allowed to be sold
This makes a gruesome read, guys.
I am still in the same position and have given up unless I can read that a decent and automated (!!!) solution has been presented by MS.
Absolutely awful letting people hang like this and not providing a proper, reliable upgrade that's not messing with some many people's settings, expecting them to become Windows programmers to install an upgrade to an OS they have paid for.
I solved my own problem (just above). When I rebooted into Safe Mode, the system undid its partial installation. I was then able to reboot in normal mode and be back where I started. I can now step through the readiness tools before letting Windows Update install SP1.
Watch out, those readiness tools did me no good the last 3 times I've tried this...only sign of trouble is when I can't reboot after install. I'm not ready to try again yet with posts like this still showing up.
I solved my own problem (just above). When I rebooted into Safe Mode, the system undid its partial installation. I was then able to reboot in normal mode and be back where I started. I can now step through the readiness tools before letting Windows Update install SP1.
