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[nabz0r]

Hey people, today at work I/we got like more than 20+ people having problem with the SP1 on Windows 7. I managed to find the solution for it so if any of you have the problem this solution sould work. I have installed SP1 when it first came out and I still don't have prboem with it so far.

Note: Try it at your own risk!


This method works without Safe Mode, without backups, without System Restore, without DISM, and without a Windows 7 DVD repair disc.


INSTRUCTIONS:

01. Reboot your computer while it's starting up.

02. When your computer starts up again, choose the option "Launch Startup Repair"
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03. When the Startup repair starts, click cancel.

04. After you click cancel it will show a box. Click "Don't Send"
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05. Click the link "View advanced options for recovery and support"

06. In the new window click Command Prompt at the bottom.
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07. In Command Prompt type this and press enter: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe

08. Notepad will open. In notepad go to File-->Open.

09. Change the type of files notepad views from .txt to All Files (see pic)
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10. Now in Notepad, go to C:\Windows\winsxs\ (or whichever drive Windows is installed on)

11. In that folder, find pending.xml and make a copy of it

12. Now open the original pending.xml (it will load really slow because the file is huge)

13. Press CNTRL+F and search for the following exactly: 0000000000000000.cdf-ms

14. Delete the following text (yours will be a little different):
<Checkpoint/>
<DeleteFile path="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"/>
<MoveFile source="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\e56db1db48d4cb0199440000b01de419._0000000000000000.cdf-ms" destination="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"/>

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Your PC might not have all 3 sections of code (<Checkpoint>, <DeleteFile>, <MoveFile>). Just make sure you delete section "Checkpoint" and whatever other sections have "000000000000000.cdf-ms". They will be right next to eachother.

15. Save the file, close notepad, close command prompt, restart your computer.


Once your computer starts up, do a normal startup (it may stall for 5-10 minutes at the "starting windows" screen, but leave it going) and the Service Pack will install some more stuff and restart a few times and then everything should be working! For some people, it reverts everything and cancels the service pack installation. For other people, the service pack installation completes. Either result is fine.

Edit: This is not mine, I just found it Microsoft's page.

[stormrosson]

May I suggest u see a therapist about yer avatar?.....

[m.oreilly]

nabz, you have a link where you got this info?

[m.oreilly]

i went ahead and got the full installs from technet. nabz, if you could, please post up the link to the process you outlined?

[VROSA]

I updated to SP1 from the Wzor leaked installer, but WU downloaded some extra content a few days after (~50 MB), which it also called "Windows 7 Service Pack 1". Anyway... No problems at all

[nabz0r]

Sorry guys for not the late replay. I've got some problems and got very busy with studies, etc.

Anyway, yeah I will try to find the link and post the entire thread as soon as I find it again.

Hehe, I have the best avatar

Yes, some people including me don't have problems with the SP1 but some were unlucky.

[m.oreilly]

i was able to install using the integrated .iso. needed a fresh one anyways