Windows update stuck forever: "Operations are in progress. Please wait. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete."

Tuesday, March 19. 2013

That happened to me with March 2013 updates. The machine was stuck with "Operations are in progress" -message for 12 hours. At that point I deduced that it is unlikely for the machine to actually be doing anything.

The real question is: What to do?

  1. Force the thing into reboot cycle?
  2. Wait a while longer?

I chose 1. and was ready for the smelly thing to hit the fan. Nothing happened. Windows finalized the updates during boot, which is pretty much normal in the circumstances. After that I logged in and everything worked fine.

by Jari Turkia in Windows at 08:49 | Comments (2) | Share in LinkedIn

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Can you please tell me how you dorced the computer into reboot? I have the same problem and I cannot get past it.
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#1 Aislin on 2014-01-21 03:47 (Reply)
Funny how the BFI-method gets results sometimes. :-) The acronym means Brute Force and Ignorance. I simply pushed the laptop's power button for 4 seconds and the thing turned off.
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#1.1 Jari Turkia on 2014-01-21 08:48 (Reply)

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