{"id":1028,"date":"2019-01-14T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2019-01-14T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:03:20","slug":"windows-update-stuck-in-continuous-loop-how-to-stop-it-and-manually-reset-windows-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Windows update stuck in continuous loop  ? How To Stop It And Manually Reset Windows Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If bad windows update procedure went rough windows boot can go into never ending loop\u00a0 of installing and reverting update . Few things to try :<\/p>\n<p>Start with operating system disk and remove the file <strong>C:\\windows\\winsxs\\pending.xml\u00a0 . <\/strong>Reboot !<\/p>\n<p>If that didn&#8217;t help you can force reverting any update currently trying to be installed :<\/p>\n<pre>dism.exe \/image:C:\\ \/cleanup-image \/revertpendingactions<\/pre>\n<p>If that didn&#8217;t help you can try to reset all windows update all together :<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Method 1<\/strong>: Run the Windows Update troubleshooter.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Type \u201c<strong>Troubleshooting<\/strong>\u201d in search box and press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>View All<\/strong>\u201d option on top left pane.<\/li>\n<li>Select \u201c<strong>Windows Update<\/strong>\u201d from the list and follow the prompts for troubleshooting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Method 2<\/strong>:\u00a0Manually reset the Windows update components.<\/p>\n<p>1. Press Windows Key + X on the keyboard and then select \u201cCommand Prompt (Admin)\u201d from the menu.<\/p>\n<p>2. Stop the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. To do this, type the following commands at a command prompt. Press the \u201cENTER\u201d key after you type each command.<\/p>\n<p>net stop wuauserv<\/p>\n<p>net stop cryptSvc<\/p>\n<p>net stop bits<\/p>\n<p>net stop msiserver<\/p>\n<p>3. Now rename the SoftwareDistribution and Catroot2 folder. You can do this by typing the\u00a0following commands in the Command Prompt. Press the \u201cENTER\u201d key after you type each command.<\/p>\n<p>ren C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old<\/p>\n<p>ren C:\\Windows\\System32\\catroot2 Catroot2.old<\/p>\n<p>4. Now, let\u2019s restart the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. Type the following commands in the Command Prompt for this. Press the ENTER key after you type each command.<\/p>\n<p>net start wuauserv<\/p>\n<p>net start cryptSvc<\/p>\n<p>net start bits<\/p>\n<p>net start msiserver<\/p>\n<p>5. Type Exit in the Command Prompt to close it and then restart the computer.<\/p>\n<p>6. After restarting the computer, now retry to install Windows Updates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*. You can also try to press F8 at boot time and choose &#8220;last known Good Configuration<\/p>\n<p>*. You can coot to recovery console and run : Startrep.exe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Good Luck<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If bad windows update procedure went rough windows boot can go into never ending loop\u00a0 of installing and reverting update . Few things to try : Start with operating system disk and remove the file C:\\windows\\winsxs\\pending.xml\u00a0 . Reboot ! If that didn&#8217;t help you can force reverting any update currently trying to be installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-tech","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}