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

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July 21, 2014 1:51:48 AM

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 :/ 

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July 21, 2014 6:34:11 AM

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
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July 21, 2014 8:40:47 AM

my computer did the same thing but it took about 3 hours for it to restart.

I found that if you have a lot of updates to do... Do them all at once, however make sure you have a strong internet connection. Make sure they all download and are ready to install before restarting your computer.
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September 27, 2014 5:44:19 AM

But how do u stop it it's no good saying about the updates if we can't even get past the failure!
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