Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro hangs on Re-Start After Update

Win 10 Pro, installed a few days ago clean install over another, fabulous, operating system, Windows 7 Pro and running fine after installing and using some apps SQL Server 17, Visual Studio 19,. Last night, downloaded updates and requested restart. I re-started and went to bed. This morning, I found the screen was blank with no DVI message. Turned machine off and on after a period: same no DVI message. On third or fourth try, Windows logo appears on screen and a twirling working cursor no message menu, or percentage counter. After a few minutes, the working cursor freezes. After an hour or so I gave up and tried again: had to go through the same series of three or four re-starts before seeing the Window icon and having the process freeze after a few minutes or at least the cursor freeze. I presume that three or four restarts may be the Windows 10 Auto-repair process, but again, if so, there is no menu shown before the working cursor comes up.


I cannot or do not know how to get to bios or do a safe start under Windows 10 since there is no menu or anything on start up before the working cursor. I have an iso on CD but my computer bios I guess is not set to check the CD/DVD first since it didn't attempt to load from the CD and I can't get to the bios to change anything there..


Online, I can not find any working solutions short of opening my computer and moving/disconnecting hardware parts I never heard of yeah, right.


Someone in an online post somewhere on a similar update issue suggested let it sit, it took them overnight for an update, but I don't know if they saw the stuck working cursor or not. And anyway, hours and hours for an update? Right now it is running frozen again, and certainly won't stop it until I have some reasonable solution to try. Is waiting many hours or a day with a frozen cursor really a possible suggestion?


This just can't be possible that there is not a way to get to bios or reboot in safe mode in a stuck Windows 10 short of replacing a hard drive or other hardware, right? Am I crazy? I have an SSD start up drive and a second hard drive on the machine.

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Windows Update suddenly hangs?

Windows Update is suddenly hanging for some reason... I went and downloaded and installed the first bunch of updates, restarted when asked, and now when I go back to windows update I just get the window with a white box forever. Reboot and it still does it. This happens to be on my main machine, running windows 7.

I've also noticed when I reboot it says configuring windows update, step 3 of 3, 47%. Maybe it somehow skipped something and is screwed forever?

 

Windows 10 update hangs on downloading updates at 98%

Hi vinodh,

In step 3 you state to press enter after after each command but its written like one sentence,could you list them so we can identify each command please.my pc just hangs on "checking for updates" so i installed the win 10 updater and that just hangs on 99%
so i will try what you suggest above.

Thanks

 

Microsoft to make Windows 10 updates mandatory

Well, at the moment at least, you can choose to defer upgrades. Under Settings > Windows Updates > Advanced options you need to check the box labeled "Defer upgrades". What does that do? Good question. The answer I've found might illuminate it to a degree.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/defer-upgrades-in-windows-10

I hear this only applies to Pro and Enterprise editions. But I can't verify that.