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I turned my computer off before leaving for work this morning (@7AMish) and was told/prompted by the shut down process that Windows was updating (11 updates). Before I left it was on 7 out of 11).

I never have a problem doing this until now. This evening I come home to find the computer still on and stuck on the 7th out of 1q updates. Clearly it crashed while updating. Should I just shut it down manually and hope nothing is royally broken in the OS? Or do something else?

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

Clearly it crashed while updating. Should I just shut it down manually and hope nothing is royally broken in the OS? Or do something else?

If it crashed, the damage is already done. I doubt you can make it worse by pressing the power button long enough to shut it down and then rebooting.

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@Thomas,

Thanks Thomas. I did shut it off manually and turn it back on. So far... ((knock on wood)) ... no detrimental symptoms have shown themselves.

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@tsarstepan,

Relieved to hear it.

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@tsarstepan,

Yeah, that's what the software gremlins want you to believe.

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@Thomas,

(((SHHH!))) Those gremlins are close cousins to the a2k hamsters. They read these threads on a daily basis.

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When the Lord created computers he gave them free will. So you just never really know.

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@tsarstepan,

Shut it down. Had to do that myself this morning. No worse for wear. Just had to redo the updates again after the reboot.

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@izzythepush,

I heard rumors that the IT Crowd is making a very special reunion show. Surprised

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@tsarstepan,

It would be good. A lot is down to the writing skills of Graham Linehan, Black Books and Father Ted are comedy gold. His latest, on BBC this time, Count Arthur Strong is well worth a look. It just finished a 6 part series on Tuesday.

Oh I've not heard anything about an IT crowd reunion, but I hope you're right.

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@tsarstepan,

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This evening I come home to find the computer still on and stuck on the 7th out of 11 updates. Clearly it crashed while updating.

I've just upgraded to a Toshiba laptop running Windows 8 - only had it for a week, but already had a problem with Windows updates - took almost two hours in total.

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@vonny,

I hate when I go to bed and then am informed that Windows has to update my laptop. They tend to be long updates as well.

If they warned me earlier then I would have turned it off much earlier that night.

So I basically leave the computer on and try not let the bright screen keep me awake. I also keep worrying that it'll take too long and overheat.

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@tsarstepan,

[img]. I also keep worrying that it'll take too long and overheat. [/img]

That's my biggest fear too! Usually ends up with me losing an hour or two of sleep because I'm waiting for it to finish. Scared that if I just switch it off abruptly, I'll damage the laptop!

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@vonny,

There's no damage that would be done by interrupting an overly long download. One way to get out of this is for you to press Ctrl, Alt, Delete..and stop the download process. The worst you will do by doing this interruption is mess up the download of that particular update. In which case, you can come back and reload the update at a different time and it should be fine.

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@Ragman,

Thanks for that, Ragman. I'm still very new to computers and have a lot to learn. I'll make a note of what you said - good to know I don't have to sit up for hours nursemaiding it!

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