Comments on: Endless Reboot Loop While “Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3″ During Vista SP1 Installation

By: Firas

Firas — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:05:57 +0000

Wonderful information,
I have used step 3, only removed the pending.xml and now it is ok.

By: Irnest

Irnest — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:32:59 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you. Method 3 saved my Server 2008 machine.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:39:50 +0000

Thanks so much for the help! I used step 3 and it worked! I wasted half a day on this (trying everything from msft help) and your solution worked in 5 minutes!

By: Ajit

Ajit — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:59:07 +0000

Step 3 worked for me but I had to delete
HLKM\components\pendingXmLIdentifier
becuase the other 2 mentioned in the forum were not there.
It works like a charm… and installing service pack 2 right away

By: alex

alex — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:33:16 +0000

i forgot to add the error message when attempting to do system restore talks about “unresolved transaction (0×80071AA7)”. also during these endless cycles, while waiting to try to boot, the screen briefly flashes some string which seems to begin with 2/18894, but it is so brief i have not been able to write it all down yet.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:20:03 +0000

Unfortunately, in method 3 at step 13 the reg editor refuses to load the components saying the file is in use by another process. moreover there is no cleanup.xml in the directory that has pending.xml in it. please advise further. oh and every attempt at system restore gives an error message as well.

By: steven

steven — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:24:06 +0000

awesome, got my system back. i had no restore point, so i had to use step 3. i also went to microsoft and they were as lost as i was. thank you.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:55:46 +0000

Thank you so much. Step 3 saved me a lot of time.

By: Riphans

Riphans — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:31:49 +0000

this worked also for me.. thank alot..

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:29:19 +0000

Hi,
I am not finding the way to rename the components to offline_components. I rename it in the Load Hive but it did not change in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. I am missing a step? Thank you

By: Jac378

Jac378 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:49:50 +0000

Method #3 worked perfect for me, I could not used System restore because I turned it off.so..

Para Jhacobson : Pudistes arreglarlo??

By: Gapitta

Gapitta — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:51:37 +0000

GRACIAS GENTE, FUNCIONA MUY BIEN!!!

Les cuento lo que hice en base a los pasos que se describen al principio.
En mi caso tengo un notebook HP con Vista y no tengo el DVD de instalacion.
Lo que hice fue iniciar con F8 la opcion de reparacion y luego entrar a linea de comando por medio de las opciones avanzadas.
Luego busque la unidad C que en realidad paso a ser la F y digite lo siguiente:

rstrui.exe /OFFLINE:F:\windows

alli me abrio la consola de restaurar sistema.
Tengan cuidado de poner bien la unidad. Si estan parados en la particion de reuperacion, entonces la consola de restaurar les dira que no tiene puntos de restauracion.

By: Jhacobson

Jhacobson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:49:05 +0000

A mi no me ha servido ninguno, es que ni porque ponga de primero el disco CD/DVD me agarra, me podrían decir ya que de otroa forma puedo entrar?

By: Maciej

Maciej — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:21:33 +0000

THANK YOU! Step 3 saved my ass.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:58 +0000

Thanks alot for the help
Thanks the step 3 has worked perfect.

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