Just installed updates and restarted. Restart stalled at configuring updates 30%

[madfloridian]

Windows 7 pro. Been over half an hour now. I assume if I shut down and reboot, the updates will resume or something?

I switched to my other computer for now, but it's slow.

[steve2470]

1. if you reboot, sometimes the update will restart or resume

If it does not, you'll probably have to start all over again, I'm afraid.

[madfloridian]

2. Acting weird...finally after almost 40 minutes is now shutting down.

But it's just sitting there spinning.

[gvstn]

3. I've never had a problem

With just shutting down (holding power button to force shutdown) when Windows updates take too long. It will just marked the update failed and try again later.

I wouldn't worry about it not starting properly if you power down, I've never had a failed update cause major problems.

[madfloridian]

4. That's what I am going to do. Just power down and see what happens.

It's really odd, never had this happen on this computer.

[gvstn]

5. I've only had it happen a couple of times

But in my experience if the updates don't install properly within a couple of minutes they never will. A restart is the only solution despite Windows' warnings about not shutting down.

[madfloridian]

6. Restarted. A few installed, the rest didn't. I will wait another day to try again.

Very irritating.

[gvstn]

7. Many times it has to do with the order of the installs

If one update is dependent on a previous update when they all come down at once there is sometimes a problem.

You should be fine just trying updates again since the necessary one may have already been installed.

Worse comes to worse you have to manually select one update at a time until the rest install without problem. This shouldn't be necessary in most cases since this is a clean install and just a lot of updates coming in at one time causing a hiccup.

[Mnpaul]

8. I had no problem on my tablet with Win 7 Pro

but there sure seems to be a lot of them lately. Several times a week.

[madfloridian]

9. I don't get them often at all. Finally got today's all downloaded.

I had to go to Windows Update for them to check, and they came up with the ones that didn't install.

It was a huge amount today. Much more than usual.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. I had 20 each on 2 computers!

One hung on #2, so I restarted it and updated through the updater app instead of by shutting down. That worked.