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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 another computer”

Then enter the hostname of the server that has the issue 

After successfully connected to the server navigate the “Windows Modules Installer” service, then you can see “Windows Modules Installer” service is in stopping mode.



And was not allowing to Stop or Start.

 

Open properties of “Windows Modules Installer” service to check the command that the service is executing.


 So ended up the “TrustedInstaller” process we can use the following command

taskkill /S hostname /IM trustedinstaller.exe

Run command prompt as an administrator and run above command, instead of hostname type your server hostname which has problem.

After that, the server will reboot successfully.










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