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Windows Hangs after Update

I am running Windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop computer. I have Windows updates installed automatically. Last night when I shut down my Windows performed an update, and - in spite of rebooting several times - I am now having all sorts of problems. To start, when I open Windows Explorer it takes forever to load and then hangs near the end of the loading. My MS Outlook hangs during loading as well, though my other MS Office programs open fine (Word and Excel). My NERO programs don't open, nor does my PowerDesk File Management software or my GoodSync file synchronization software. Oh, it doesn't appear as though my Snipping Tool ... which I used to show you the point at which Explorer hangs ... worked. Please help!

I just noticed that while I was typing this help request my Explorer finally stopped loading and seems to work OK. As a test, I shut it down and restarted the program, and it once again appeared to hang during loading - obviously taking 20 minutes to load is unacceptable. And the other programs (most critically Outlook) still don't load at all.

UPDATE: Once the Windows Explorer finally loads all of the other programs seem to load just fine. So the problem seems to be how long it takes to load Windows Explorer.

Thanks,

Phil

Sunil Chauhan

remove the recent update and change the option automatic update to notify you, there might be some underline update which might be causing the issue.

the slow loading happens due to the slow Harddrive, so defrag the disk that may improve some hard disk performance.

philsimmons

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Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. My hard drive is fine (especially since it went from blazing fast to snail-paced slow overnight following the update). As for undoing the update, can you please tell me how to do that? And, if I undo it how do I get the necessary security and other improvements that are (presumably) included in the update? I've had Windows updates on automatic for decades and have never had this problem.

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Sunil Chauhan

this is tricky.

Not all update may be causing issues, so the strategy here would be to remove an update one by one and then review if that fixes the issues, mostly Microsoft releases the fixed update in a couple of days later so you can try to install that update after waiting for some time.

for uninstalling the update please follow the post here.

https://www.ghacks.net/2014/12/11/how-to-remove-installed-windows-updates-and-block-them-afterwards/

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If your computer not stable anymore - run this (you may need to run it in safe mode if it's not stable enough to run regular)
(run in cmd with admin)

net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
net stop appidsvc
net stop cryptsvc

Ren %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.bak

Ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.bak

sc.exe sdset bits D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)

sc.exe sdset wuauserv D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)

cd /d %windir%\system32


     regsvr32.exe atl.dll
     regsvr32.exe urlmon.dll
     regsvr32.exe mshtml.dll
     regsvr32.exe shdocvw.dll
     regsvr32.exe browseui.dll
     regsvr32.exe jscript.dll
     regsvr32.exe vbscript.dll
     regsvr32.exe scrrun.dll
    regsvr32.exe msxml.dll
     regsvr32.exe msxml3.dll
     regsvr32.exe msxml6.dll
     regsvr32.exe actxprxy.dll
     regsvr32.exe softpub.dll
     regsvr32.exe wintrust.dll
     regsvr32.exe dssenh.dll
     regsvr32.exe rsaenh.dll
    regsvr32.exe gpkcsp.dll
     regsvr32.exe sccbase.dll
     regsvr32.exe slbcsp.dll
     regsvr32.exe cryptdlg.dll
     regsvr32.exe oleaut32.dll
     regsvr32.exe ole32.dll
    regsvr32.exe shell32.dll
     regsvr32.exe initpki.dll
     regsvr32.exe wuapi.dll
     regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll
         regsvr32.exe wuaueng1.dll
     regsvr32.exe wucltui.dll
     regsvr32.exe wups.dll
     regsvr32.exe wups2.dll
     regsvr32.exe wuweb.dll
     regsvr32.exe qmgr.dll
     regsvr32.exe qmgrprxy.dll
     regsvr32.exe wucltux.dll
    regsvr32.exe muweb.dll
     regsvr32.exe wuwebv.dll

netsh winsock reset
net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start appidsvc
net start cryptsvc

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After you run this in powershell run sfc /scannow

then run windows update again

philsimmons

ASKER

Thank you!

John

You are very welcome and I was happy to help and I hope now all is well