I Don't Know What to Do! - SP1 Problems

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This is a cross-post from windows.update. I apologize but there were no
suggestions over there and I'm in a serious panic. I'm trying to install
service pack 1 on a computer running WXP home. The download seemed to go
quickly with no problems, but for the last 3.5 hours I have been looking at
a screen that says:

Service Pack 1 Set-up Wizard
Finishing Installation
Running processes after install

As far as I can tell, absolultely nothing is happening. I don't have an
active "cancel" or "stop" button. Task Manager shows the wizard is "running"
but CPU usage is showing about 2-4%, with an occasional blip to 8-10%. I
don't know what to do next. How long should I give this update to install?
How do I get out of this without creating a disaster? All suggestions are
sincerely appreciated. Thank you!
 
OC said:
This is a cross-post from windows.update. I apologize but there were no
suggestions over there and I'm in a serious panic. I'm trying to install
service pack 1 on a computer running WXP home. The download seemed to go
quickly with no problems, but for the last 3.5 hours I have been looking at
a screen that says:

Service Pack 1 Set-up Wizard
Finishing Installation
Running processes after install

As far as I can tell, absolultely nothing is happening. I don't have an
active "cancel" or "stop" button. Task Manager shows the wizard is "running"
but CPU usage is showing about 2-4%, with an occasional blip to 8-10%. I
don't know what to do next. How long should I give this update to install?
How do I get out of this without creating a disaster? All suggestions are
sincerely appreciated. Thank you!
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It MIGHT have finished and just can't tell you for some
reason, from the sound of the message. I -think- when you
reboot, you'll be OK and able to redo things.

Maybe CTRL-ALT-DEL will give you a hint at least to what
process's looping. Hope someone comes along with better
advice, but, if CAD shows something Not Responding, which I
feel sure it will, and there aren't any processes you can
kill cleanly, you might (not will) have a problem Ending or
Shutting Down .
If so, when you repower up, start with the XP CD and do a
System Repair or whatever that R option is called. It's
basically a reload of the XP files, but you won't lose any
data. Or go the "Upgrade" route - also non destructive,
deeper depth. New Install will lose your data on you, if it
comes to that, but will get you going again.

Is this system new enouigh that file fragmentation, drive
space, etc. are not a problem?

Luck!

Pop
 
Thanks Pop - as it turned out it rebooted fine - though slow and painful -
and SP1 seems to be installed and running.
 
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