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Windows Stuck on "Preparing to configure Windows"

           Preparing to configure Windows. Do not turn off your computer.   When server got stuck from long time on “Preparing to configure Windows Do not turn off your computer” . Don’t powering it off because it may be bad effect on your OS. Here have fix to get rid out of this.                                                                                                   Steps to Fix: Logged into another server on the same domain. Open Services console Right Click on Service (Local), then click on “Connect to...

VM Not boot up / Undo Windows Patches

  Windows Server 2012 R2 is Stuck on "Updating Your System"  At the time of updating patches on virtual machine running on a Microsoft Hyper-V platform if one of the updates had failed, and all pending updates were going to be undone. After about an hour of "undoing changes", the servers restarted. The following screen appeared, and stayed there, even after hours of waiting, with no progress being made:    Steps to fix:   1) Turn off VM.   2) Go into the VM settings and adjust the "Automatic start delay" option, set 5 second delay so that we have more time to press the F8 key when we turn on the VM    3) Power on VM and press the F8 key, following menu will appear:    4) Choose "Troubleshoot" then "Command Prompt"  5) When prompted, you will need to enter the password for a local administrator account.  6) Next, we need to run the following command to get a list of ...