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Old October 21st 12, 04:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
(PeteCresswell)
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Default "Preparing to configure Windows...."

Per (PeteCresswell):
Dunno if it's really hung, but I tried leaving it up for over an
hour and no change.

Anybody been here?


FWIW, I tried to re-boot into "Safe" mode by pressing F8 and
choosing "Safe Mode" from the resulting character-based screen.

Once I did that, Windows threw a screen about
"Repairing...(something-or-other)."

After "Repairing..." ran for a few minutes, the machine
re-booted, and now I'm back to "Preparing to configure WIndows.
Do not turn off your computer."

Now that I'm looking more closely, somebody's doing a sort of
mini-marching-ant thing with the period after "Windows"... not
really marching ants, but it moves right one character at a time
for 3 characters total and then does the same backwards...
over-and-over.... so the thing's probably not hung.

It's been a little over 10 minutes so far, and think I'm just
gonna walk away and leave it for a few hours.
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Pete Cresswell
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