Vista freezes during update to SP2

[Niitro]

weel, today Windows Update offer to dowload SP2, so i downloaded it ...
started installing, everything was fine, and now its frozen, step 1 of 3, 96% ...
dunno what to do ...
should i shut it down mannualy .... "?


It has actually happened 20 minutes ago, so quick reply would help ... :/

[Void]

weel, today Windows Update offer to dowload SP2, so i downloaded it ...
started installing, everything was fine, and now its frozen, step 1 of 3, 96% ...
dunno what to do ...
should i shut it down mannualy .... "?


It has actually happened 20 minutes ago, so quick reply would help ... :/

don't let them do those updates automatically   

download SP2 manually from Microsoft site and manually install it

this should work 

[Niitro]

but what to do now .... shut down the ''hard'' way  ?

[Void]

but what to do now .... shut down the ''hard'' way  ?

what do you mean by "hard" way

delete that frozable update and don't let them to ask you again

hard way is this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&displaylang=en



or i can offer you a pirated version of Vista SP2 on PM 

[Niitro]

rright ,,
you didnt quite get me ...
i have 2 laptops, HP (vista) and ACER (win 7) ...
this problem is on HP ...
I am posting this from acer ...

anyway ...
i shut it down by pressing ON button for 5 seconds ...
tried to turn on, it showed up black screen, did a disk check, rebooted and it continued installing sp2, now 2nd step of 3 ...

[Void]

rright ,,
you didnt quite get me ...
i have 2 laptops, HP (vista) and ACER (win 7) ...
this problem is on HP ...
I am posting this from acer ...

anyway ...
i shut it down by pressing ON button for 5 seconds ...
tried to turn on, it showed up black screen, did a disk check, rebooted and it continued installing sp2, now 2nd step of 3 ...

i perfectly understood you

you told that you have a installing barricade ( freezing during install of an update )

i had that problem but manually dlled and installed the Service Pack and it worked

[Niitro]

riight ...
it froze up again at step 3 of 3 ...
again, manual shut down, disk check, this time turned on in safe mode, dlled the update manually ,,,
and it installed with no problems ... thanx

[The_Wolf]

If you are using a legal and bought copy of Vista, I would suggest you to go HERE and I can bet you will recieve an answer for your question.

[Void]

If you are using a legal and bought copy of Vista, I would suggest you to go HERE and I can bet you will recieve an answer for your question.

you never know  :roll:

[Niitro]

you never know  :roll:

as suprising as it may sound, it is a legal one ...
the laptop came with it ....