Windows 8, groundhog day

[Terminator X]

Stuck in a restart cycle of doom. Apparently there are important windows updates that require a restart; that happens and updates fail prompting a return to how it was before the update. Repeat ad infinitum with the laptop out of use for 3hrs ish each time. Is there any hope for me?

TX.

[Burrito]

Hit F8 and start in safe mode, then restore to the last known good date.

[Terminator X]

In what situation would you press F8, for the benifit of others of course ...

TX.

[ViperDave]

after you turn it on, and after the bios screen before windows boots.

Basically turn it on and repeatably press F8 until you get the selection screen with safe mode on it, if windows starts to boot, you missed it

[gpo746]

Is it the 8.1 update.
If so and there are others as well untick all the others.

[LordGrover]

What? No suggestions to install ubuntu/mint yet?
Slackers.

[gpo746]

LordGrover said:

What? No suggestions to install ubuntu/mint yet?
Slackers.

Or buy a mac......

[sgrimshaw]

Burrito said:

Hit F8 and start in safe mode, then restore to the last known good date.

Not in Windows 8.x, it was removed by those wkers in Redmond

It really sucks.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/ss/windows...

[sgrimshaw]

Many people are struggling with this.

MS being usual unhelpful tts.

I'd been struggling with mine for two days, until Wednesday evening when I ran out of patience ...... and restored the bloody thing to Factory status (Win 8 Pro) and then ran through the Win 8 updates, installed 8.1 from the store, then ran the Win 8.1 updates.

Machine finally running a fully updated Win 8.1 late last night.

One "good" thing came out of this ..... I discovered that Acronis True Image does NOT work with Windows 8.1.

Time to find some new disc backup software which is fully 8.1 compatible.

[Nimby]

sgrimshaw said:

One "good" thing came out of this ..... I discovered that Acronis True Image does NOT work with Windows 8.1.

What version? I have TI Home 2014 and that's working perfectly with Win 8.1

[SuperDude]

Updated yesterday. Reduced my super spec PC to a brick for around 30 minutes.

I think it was something related to that SkyDive app? That's the service/app that took every inch of my system resource for so long.

Whatever, it was bd infuriating.

[Burrito]

sgrimshaw said:

Burrito said:

Hit F8 and start in safe mode, then restore to the last known good date.

Not in Windows 8.x, it was removed by those wkers in Redmond

It really sucks.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/ss/windows...

Hmm, I wasn't aware of this. What an utterly retarded thing to do.

[supersport]

Should have got a mac

[lestag]

why is it raining?


Tx, once the PC boots up, can you go into windows updates and turn it off automatically installing them? then go in and tick one at a time and install them

[ViperDave]

Burrito said:

sgrimshaw said:

Burrito said:

Hit F8 and start in safe mode, then restore to the last known good date.

Not in Windows 8.x, it was removed by those wkers in Redmond

It really sucks.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/ss/windows...

Hmm, I wasn't aware of this. What an utterly retarded thing to do.

Me neither, and with similar sentiment.

[SlidingSideways]

Is this the same issue you're having?

http://www.cravingtech.com/finally-fix-error-80073...

[Terminator X]

SlidingSideways said:

Is this the same issue you're having?

http://www.cravingtech.com/finally-fix-error-80073...

No I get the blue update screen for a few hours then the same screen for another few albeit telling me updates didn't work so reverting back to how it was before updates I've turned off auto updates as per advice above albeit still need to work out which ones to install and which ones not to

TX.

[Walford]

ViperDave said:

Burrito said:

sgrimshaw said:

Burrito said:

Hit F8 and start in safe mode, then restore to the last known good date.

Not in Windows 8.x, it was removed by those wkers in Redmond

It really sucks.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/ss/windows...

Hmm, I wasn't aware of this. What an utterly retarded thing to do.

Me neither, and with similar sentiment.

To make it harder to get back to 7

[sgrimshaw]

Nimby said:

What version? I have TI Home 2014 and that's working perfectly with Win 8.1

2013, with all the upgrades.

Have you tried booting from a rescue USB and selecting a backup to restore from?

[Nimby]

sgrimshaw said:

2013, with all the upgrades.

Have you tried booting from a rescue USB and selecting a backup to restore from?

Yes - but only with a WinPE boot (CD or USB stick). That's an issue with my BIOS - something changed with an Acronis 2013 update that stopped the default Linux rescue media booting on my PC. Fortunately with Acronis 2014 it's a bit easier to make a WinPE rescue (still a bit of a faff though).