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Missing Windows Servicing Packages files & update problems
Tone111:
Ah I see, that would explain it! Not sure why it ignored my order to "Sleep" though, but it seems to have successfully installed most of the 150 WU it got up to before it stuck, but then it had a wobble when I rebooted and BSOD'd with error e9, then eventually started ok.
None of the updates are showing in Update History (it's blank), but when I go into Installed Updates there are 147 MS Windows showing, only 2 of which were there after the Upgrade, so the majority of them have gone on, which is promising :smiley:
Now to try get the rest on.... WU is telling me to restart to install important updates, but I just have done! It's in a restart to install loop I'm afraid, let's try rebooting again then...
Oh and before I forget - have tried to rename the pending.xml file while in Windows, and it won't let me do it from either Windows explorer (says Permission needed but then won't allow it) or using your dos commands (says Access is denied), so the SFC scan Still won't run - now saying system repair pending which requires reboot to complete, rather than Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation, so still at a loss with that one.... :rolleyes: :sad:
Boggin:
I think you should cut your losses and opt for a factory reset. :smiley:
However if you ever get past the WUs, here is a possible fix for that pending error for sfc /scannow.
It isn't my fix but comes from a reliable source and because I cannot find it in my toolbox, I'm going to have to type it out in full myself from a print out I took of it.
Probably best to do this booting up with the install disk to navigate to the RE and select Command Prompt as it isn't giving you elevation, although it can be done by booting up into the Advanced Boot options and select Repair your Computer.
Anyway, at the command prompt try this dism command -
dism.exe /image:c:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
exit
Then Restart and try the sfc again.
If that doesn't work then from the RE Command Prompt again enter these commands and follow the other steps, but as they involve working in the Registry - probably best to create a restore point first.
c:
cd c:\windows\winsxs
ren pending.xml pending.old
regedit
Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and from the File menu click on Load Hive
The select Hive location (sources) will open then browse to C:\Windows\System32
Locate the folder C:\Windows\System32\Config\Components and click to select.
When you are prompted for a name, type Offline_Components (not sure if you have to press enter after that, just copying from the script).
You will now see Offline_Components - expand the + and locate then delete the following registry keys -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Offline Components\AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Offline Components\PendingXmlIdentifier
Go back to Offline_Components - highlight it then from the File menu select Unload Hive
Close the registry up and reboot
See if it will let you run the command prompt as an admin and enter -
net stop wuauserv
cd %systemroot%
ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
net start wuauserv
That rename command will clear the WU history.
Off to have some trough now and then back to see if I can sort out my other laptop - long story so won't go into it.
Tone111:
Ha, yeah, I know what you think I should do, and you're probably right, and a large part of me agrees with you too... I know I'm most likely just delaying the inevitable, but the persistent (aka stubborn! :wink:) old part of me is determined to get this machine back in good working updated order without having to re-install all the 100+ programs on it, and the repair install HAS finally been successful, so now I'm just hoping the updates follow suit and do their thing accordingly :smiley: I'm nothing if not hopeful.. At some point, when I ever get round to (or am forced to!) replacing the HDD, then I daresay I'll do a clean install, till then I'll do my best to keep this build up and running :tongue:
Anyway, from the RE I managed to rename the pending.xml no problem, then ran the offline SFC, and lo and behold it ran - and not only that but didn't find any integrity violations! Never saw that before the repair install, so Bingo on that one!
I'm assuming now that solution worked that I don't need the dism /revert command as well, or the HKLM registry tweak?
So, onwards with the updates, if it will let me - it got stuck opening up the WU page before on the Control Panel, and Autopatcher also got stuck installing critical updates as well before I switched it off in disgust, so let's see if restoring the SFC has done anything to the WU, if not I'll try that last bit of your message script and report back... happy troughing and good luck with the laptop!
Tone111:
Ok, so the latest on my machine, which is a mixture of both good and not so good news... :rolleyes: (surprise! :wink:)
On the plus side my machine is now up to date, seemingly, although every time I select all the Important updates and get them on there appear to be more next time I manage to check again! :confused: weird, anyway, at least they're on, including IE11 which would never install before, just finished installing a couple of IE11 Security updates and a Windows Defender definition update which showed up after getting all the others on, then see if that does them all, again, with a further check......
Windows Features is still working, a bonus, and Shane's AIO Repair pre-scan is showing clear with No errors at all on the Package files, reparse points or Environment variables, which is super great!! :artist:
So there's plenty of positives, thanks to all, however, there are still issues with updating I'm sorry to say. Every time I've managed to get any updates on, without fail, the machine would configure and restart ok (apart from once where it said Reverting changes), then upon rechecking it would throw up error 80080005 and not be able to check due to updates pending; also there would be a pending.xml present and SFC scan would not start due to reboot/repair pending, so I've had to go into Repair mode every time and manually rename pending.xml (can't do it within Windows! :angry:), then SFC scan would work, then I could reboot back into Windows and re-check successfully for updates, where it would always find more! I now have 4 or 5 renamed pending.xml files - do I need to keep them all? There's also a reboot.xml as well, what about this one?
Phew, also, and this may or may not be related, Windows Explorer keeps crashing, Regularly! Always after a restart when I open Control Panel to check for updates, and sometimes in the middle of just doing stuff (updating, browsing, etc) later as well. Plus the SFC scan is now finding file corruptions and is unable to fix some of them, which is how my machine used to be before the Repair install! :sad: I've attached the CBS.log (which is now tiny after the repair! :smiley:), but I can't see anything obvious in it pointing to which file/s might be at fault, and as I said the pre-scan is showing clear, so any ideas on what the problems might be with the Explorer, the SFC scan corruptions and the dodgy update/pending.xml loop problems please?
Tweaking.com - Windows Repair - Pre-Scan
Computer: T-PC (Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1) (64-bit)
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Scanning Windows Packages Files.
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Boggin:
What does a chkdsk in read-only mode report now ?
Can't remember if we've already gone through this but you just enter chkdsk without any parameters for the read-only mode.
Edit - Forget this, just seen your response to the other thread regarding SFCix.exe
So how are the WUs going since that sfc fix ?
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