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Vista SP1 - Update 3 of 3 boot loop


Latest suggestions (as of 25 June 2012):  http://nctritech.com/vista_update_loop.php
 - del C:\Windows\WinSxS\cleanup.xml
 - del C:\Windows\WinSxS\pending.xml
States that it applies to Win7 also.

From: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...st&p=772615

Lot's of users are reporting successful SP1 installations - so for most people the XP SP2 debacle is now ancient history. But a few people are having issues - particularly with reboot loops at step 3. It'll be interesting to see what's causing it.

I haven't seen any drastic performance improvements with it, and it'll take a while to see any reliability or security improvements - but all in all it seems to be a worthwhile update.

Some threads about the update 3 of 3 boot loop:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...1&SiteID=17 (LINK BROKEN)

Page 7, post dated 19 Feb 2008, 7:27 AM UTC by maynardsm:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasp/thread/31ca7aee-2c6c-400c-aeee-bb00286d192a/ 
3 posts later...19 Feb 2008, 2:56 PM UTC by BryanCelyn
3 posts later... 19 Feb 2008, 8:40 PM UTC by Susan Bradley

The fix of renaming pending.xml to something else seems to be the most popular.
Some will boot into Safe Mode to remove some offending updates
Others will use System Restore with limited success (recent restore points may not work, may have to go back several days).

This article says essentially the same thing (but gives a priority to the above suggestions):http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=21969  Link no longer works