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Personal settings
A couple of updates now, the computer stalls with a black screen and a
box in the upper left corner that say it is updating the personal settings. If you put the mouse cursor in the box it says it is not responding. If you let it set for 5 or 10 minutes it eventually completes what ever it is doing and then continues to the desktop. I am running Windows 10 64 bit 17-9 build 16299.214. I just upgraded to that build tonight with the installation of KB4058258. When it completed installing that update, and after rebooting, the screen with the personal settings widow came up and as I said took about 7 minutes to complete. Is this a bug in the installer or a problem with my computer. HP laptop, Intel i7 CPU with 8GB of ram and 1TB of storage -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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Keith Nuttle wrote:
A couple of updates now, the computer stalls with a black screen and a box in the upper left corner that say it is updating the personal settings. If you put the mouse cursor in the box it says it is not responding. If you let it set for 5 or 10 minutes it eventually completes what ever it is doing and then continues to the desktop. I am running Windows 10 64 bit 17-9 build 16299.214. I just upgraded to that build tonight with the installation of KB4058258. When it completed installing that update, and after rebooting, the screen with the personal settings widow came up and as I said took about 7 minutes to complete. Is this a bug in the installer or a problem with my computer. HP laptop, Intel i7 CPU with 8GB of ram and 1TB of storage Some people cannot even install that one. https://social.technet.microsoft.com...in10itprosetup My release machine is still showing 16299.192. I'm guessing if I were to dig deep enough, I'll find mine is failing too. ******* You could temporarily create a second account "Keith2", shut down, and log in as "Keith2" and see if the system comes up faster. If you have auto-login set up, you might have to temporarily disable it. "Updating your settings", it might be messing with the registry file in your home directory. There is a registry file which is your "profile", and it's protected by a journal. This is intended to make it robust against power failures, and the registry can be repaired using the journal state information. Using a completely separate "Keith2" account, gives a chance to compare the behavior of a fresh home directory with fresh reg file created in it. The other part of the registry, is the registry files belonging to the system, and if those are messed up, changing accounts will make no difference at all. Those can be repaired after a fashion, by using a System Restore point and going back in time. Since Win10 likes to turn off System Restore, there might not be any available Restore Points at present. And this is something you might consider turning back on (until the next OS upgrade turns it off again). Paul |
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"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message news A couple of updates now, the computer stalls with a black screen and a box in the upper left corner that say it is updating the personal settings. If you put the mouse cursor in the box it says it is not responding. If you let it set for 5 or 10 minutes it eventually completes what ever it is doing and then continues to the desktop. I am running Windows 10 64 bit 17-9 build 16299.214. I just upgraded to that build tonight with the installation of KB4058258. When it completed installing that update, and after rebooting, the screen with the personal settings widow came up and as I said took about 7 minutes to complete. Is this a bug in the installer or a problem with my computer. HP laptop, Intel i7 CPU with 8GB of ram and 1TB of storage -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre Just to add to Paul's suggestion in case there is no restore point. The registry does have a backup of itself that can be restored from a command prompt. Here's a link that will be one way you could restore the registry: https://theitbros.com/restore-window...restore-point/ The registry is stored in the C:\Windows\System32\config\ folder and the backup copy is stored in the C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack directory. Using an elevated command prompt to make a copy of the config directory (call it ConfigBak) and copy the contents of the config directory into that for safe keeping. Then navigate to the config\RegBack directory and copy all the files from there into the config directory. I would only do this if your system acts the same way after making and using another User Account. Bob S. |
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