{"id":1313,"date":"2020-03-01T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2020-03-01T22:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:21:36","slug":"windows-server-hangs-at-please-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Hangs at &#8220;Please Wait&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometime you can get windows screen with status &#8220;Please wait&#8221; hangs there for ever !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait.png 1142w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PleaseWait-1024x652.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For me it was <strong>Classic shell<\/strong> software which cause the server to hang on this screen for ever. To uninstall :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<pre>Start the server in safe mode<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>run msconfig -&gt; choose \"Diagnostic Startup\" -&gt; reboot the server<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>the server will boot without any services -&gt; go to control panel -. add remove program &amp; uninstall \"Classic shell\"<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>run msconfig again-&gt; this time select\u00a0 \"Normal Startup\" -&gt; reboot the server<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>The server will boot normally again.<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Good Luck<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sometime you can get windows screen with status &#8220;Please wait&#8221; hangs there for ever ! For me it was Classic shell software which cause the server to hang on this screen for ever. To uninstall : Start the server in safe mode run msconfig -&gt; choose &#8220;Diagnostic Startup&#8221; -&gt; reboot the server the server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}