I don't have an explanation for your hang-up, but I have had the same thing happen to me. Never found the cause, but like you, all seemed to work fine after reboot. This happened quite a while ago; I have since moved on to Windows 10. My wife's computer still runs Windows 7, but her problem is that it says it is checking for updates but never completes!

Peter Shkabara
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From: Dean Kukral [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:55 AM
Subject: computer hangs during update

I had something happen to me that's never happened before.  I was doing my weekly update of Windows 7, and I did the restart, and left.  I came back in two hours and I was on the screen that said, "Updating Your Computer Do Not Turn Off Your Computer," or something like that.  But, it was hung up at 30%.  The three-fingered salute would not work, nor pressing esc, del, and whatever else.  I had to force a hard shut down by holding the power key down for four seconds.

When it came back on the next time, I had it start as normal and all seems fine.  I think that nothing bad has resulted.

Anyone have any suggestions of things that I should be doing?

I have had some quirks since I built this a year ago, using the latest hardware.  It's possible I have some kind of a memory problem.  I tried to have the memory check at boot turned on in the bios of my ASUS  ROG motherboard, but I doubt if it is running.  It doesn't seem to have the "slow boot"  like earlier bios that take time to run a memory test.  Are there some memory tests built into 7 that I can use or online?  I have four 4GB DDR4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance Memory.

Dean Kukral

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