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Old February 6th 18, 03:12 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Keith Nuttle
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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


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Old February 6th 18, 04:39 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Personal settings

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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Old February 6th 18, 05:40 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bob_S[_2_]
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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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