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From: Someone-updating-windows on 8 Apr 2010 21:32
Just wanted to post and confirm this helped in my case to, this far into
deployment of SP3 i'd have expected such silly problems to be fixed.

Anyhow, shutdown various SVCHOST processes and the installation carried
on(after about 2 hours of being stuck at the same point). However do note,
then ending these processes will cause the system to attempt to put itself
into a timed shutdown.

If/When that happens, Hit your Windows key + R, or just goto Start > Run,
and type in "shutdown -a" (without the quotes) and hit enter/OK, and this
will prevent the system shutting down your by now frustrating update to SP3.

I post this simply to aid other users stubling onto this thread.

:)

"peder horner" wrote:

> Tess: I was having the same problems with my Athlon XP/ASUS setup. I opened
> the task manager and started ending processes until the "running processes
> after installation" progress bar starting moving forward. I sorted the
> processes by name and the one that seemed to do the trick was the last
> "svchost.exe" in the list (there were multiple copies of the same process
> running). The installation finished shortly thereafter.
>
> Hope this helps (and hope it doesn't hurt!).
>
>
From: Shenan Stanley on 8 Apr 2010 23:50
Someone-updating-windows wrote:
> Just wanted to post and confirm this helped in my case to, this far
> into deployment of SP3 i'd have expected such silly problems to be
> fixed.
>
> Anyhow, shutdown various SVCHOST processes and the installation
> carried on(after about 2 hours of being stuck at the same point).
> However do note, then ending these processes will cause the system
> to attempt to put itself into a timed shutdown.
>
> If/When that happens, Hit your Windows key + R, or just goto Start
> > Run, and type in "shutdown -a" (without the quotes) and hit
> enter/OK, and this will prevent the system shutting down your by
> now frustrating update to SP3.
>
> I post this simply to aid other users stubling onto this thread.
>
> :)

Sounds like you are infested with malware.

As far as 'this far into SP3', it doesn't change - it was released, it is
the same SP3 as the day it was released and most of the issues people have
installing it are due to something being wrong with their systems.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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