Windows 8 Computer stuck on "Failure configuring Windows Updates, reverting changes. Please do not turn off your computer"

[Joseph Kingham]

Late last night (around 10:30pm) my computer was updating 0 of 97 updates. This took approximately 2 hours 35 minutes. After that it restarted and the message
"Failure configuring Windows Updates, reverting changes. Please do not turn off your computer" appeared.

I was really furious because I have never experienced this with my 1 year old computer before and was really worried. Later in (about 40 minutes) I decided enough was enough, so I turned it off by the power button. I know I know it was probably bad to do this, but at the end of the day it was never going to move.

Now I returned It back on this morning (8:30am) and the same message appeared. Can anyone tell me how to fix this please, ad arty for the long message :/

 

[Destinee_1]

Did you ever figure away to fix it because my computer is suck like that still and I need to do work on it  

 

[vikkie88]

ok to do so, i mean install updates one by one, the pc should start first.

Even I did switch off the power button and start it again. From last night, it is still showing the same status "Failure Configuring.... Reverting Changes".

how to start the pc now and get access to the desktop?

 

[Izraa24]

instead of applying all the updates in one go, open the list of updates, untick all of them

Then tick the first 15 or so and try and install them

If that works, just keep repeating the process until all of the updates are applied

you're not answering the question. This is not a solution for the above question

 

[MrKoopa95]

instead of applying all the updates in one go, open the list of updates, untick all of them

Then tick the first 15 or so and try and install them

If that works, just keep repeating the process until all of the updates are applied

you're not answering the question. This is not a solution for the above question

I found a solution to this problem. Do you have the windows installation CD?
Pop the CD in press F12 it will take u to if u want to install windows blah blah blah...
Look under that. Click repair do a system restore. And your windows should be back up and running.