Please do not Power off or unplug your machine

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It is second time in this month.
When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
Installing Update 3 of 5

(Or Installing 5 of 5)

It will last forever,
The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.

I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
other program.
I do not know other person have some experience

Thanks
 
It is second time in this month.
When I tried reload the windows, It would not start and only show:
Please do not Power off or unplug your machine
Installing Update 3 of 5

(Or Installing 5 of 5)

It will last forever,
The only way is turn off and unplug the machine to let it start windows.

I do not know if it is really update windows vista, CA antivirus or some
other program.
I do not know other person have some experience

Thanks
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Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated. It
can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off manually
may have caused damage.
 
Everyone with Vista or XP has experienced this when they have updated.
It can take a long time. You have to wait long enough. Turning it off
manually may have caused damage.
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How would you tell ;)
 
If waiting even one hour or a little more, OK
But after several hours I thought it might in dead loop
then I decided menually turned off windows and even I had to unplug the
machine.
After power on the window restarted and I did not find any other thing
wrong.
 
OK, several hours is definitely bad, and I would've done the same as you
did. There's really no other choice at that point. And I would have scanned
for damage afterwards (chkdsk and fsk, for example).

I'm glad it came out OK. Scary... (or should I say :scary:?)
 
I experienced another two, Both keep me waiting about 10 hours.
Then I checked windows update history and just told me it was update
security update for VS and end up with "failed".
Then I downloaded this upate and run it under winows, only took some
minites and end up with success
 
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