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Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users

Posted by kdawson on from the lather-rinse-repeat dept.

Echostorm writes with word that Windows Vista SP1, which began rolling out via Automatic Update, has left some users' machines unbootable. The update loops forever on "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 — 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer." "Shutting down"... restart and loop. Echostorm notes having found traces of what sounds like the same bug in early beta releases of SP1. It's unclear how many users are affected. So far there is no word on a fix from Microsoft.

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  1. That's odd by calebt3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If I don't do anything it restarts into Ubuntu. Gotta love GRUB.

  2. One possible solution ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Good opportunity to upgrade to XP?

    Or, dare I say it, Linux?

  3. Re:Win a T-Shirt! by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Q: Vista SP1 gets locks up the machines after update.

    A: [x] Fiction (wins a T-Shirt)
            [ ] Fact (truth but no T-Shirt to you bad boy.)

    What? That issue looks like fact. Sure the machines are not technically locking up and are simply rebooting for ever, but their user is locked out of getting back to work.

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    Jumpstart the tartan drive.
  4. Sounds like a fix by zakeria · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to me, removing vista from a users computer is the best thing Microsoft has offered thus far!!!

  5. Re:You can't make this stuff up. by Wowsers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, they don't beta test, YOU do ;-).

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    Take Nobody's Word For It.
  6. Microsoft announced a fix. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Download the files and follow the steps found on the following website.

    www.ubuntu.org

    you will not only have the same Vista experience but you also can enjoy the removed DRM.

  7. Re:Regression testing, people by empaler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Congratulations! You've got a T-shirt coming your way, and you're in the drawing for a $15'000 wide screen TV!*

    *: Only applies if you live in AU and really, really believe.

  8. Re:You can't make this stuff up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You must be ne... I'm not the author of the grandparent post, but the constant spew of memes only adds to the overall noise and lack of actual content. I don't see how something that is chanted 500 times is still funny. It becomes trite, expected, and tired.

    But, hey, you gotta fit in, right?
  9. It's a turd by dustmite · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You guys can say what you want, but this is why I look at slashdot less and less

    Good, please leave, thanks! This is our little place to bash MS and we like it that way.

    Oh, and just for the record, I've been using Vista since it was released and it's a stinking turd-pile, I've had more problems with it in one year than I've had with all other versions of Windows over ten years, and that's not an exaggeration. I could write a several-page essay just summing up the main points here, but that would be tedious. In all though I've easily lost several weeks of time just tracking down and fixing Vista problems, and still they come. So take your astroturfing propaganda elsewhere. Vista's a certified turd.