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Old October 21st 12, 11:51 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
(PeteCresswell)
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Per Joe Morris:
At my shop (supporting ~7000 systems) we've seen that with some consistency
ever since we started the transition to Windows 7 back in 2010. We've never
been able to pin down what's causing it - I strongly suspect there's a race
condition involved, perhaps involving Symantec's AV program - but the
instructions I gave the help desk to give to users calling in (and published
in our self-help web server) is that if you see the message with no
percentage figure for more than about a minute, forcibly power down the
system and restart it. On restart you'll see the Registry journal being
rerun (less than a minute) after which the system will pick up where it left
off.


Tried that once. Maybe the second time will be the charm.

I think you can cross Symantec's AV prog off the list bc I use
Avast and Symantec's never been installed on this sys.
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Pete Cresswell
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