After you install Windows 7 SP1, you may receive the message that the XP Mode needs to be Upgraded ( Upgrading Virtual PC Integration Components) when you open the XP Mode. Sometimes, the IC upgrade fails and displays "Setup Interrupted". Resolution: You can examine the setupact.log and vmguestsetup...

Symptom: When you are installing a service pack or update for Windows 7 or 2008 R2, the update may fail to install with an error 0X80070490. You have tried the following contents, but still can not resolve the problem: 1. KB977893 2. KB947821 3. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7...

Symptom: When you are installing a service pack or update for Windows 7 or 2008 R2, the update may fail to install with an error 0x80073701. When you examine the CBS.log, you may find the followings were logged: 2011-03-01 10:31:14, Error CSI 00000010 (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING...

You might encounter an issue during the installation of SP1 for Win7/R2 where the installer exits with: 0x800f0a12. Usually it means the installer can’t access the system partition of your computer’s hard disk to update files. This is due to the automount policy for your machine being...

Symptom: When you are installing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, you may encounter the installatin failure with error 0x80004005 (E-FAIL). And you can find the errors in the CBS.log, like below: Failed. Attempted to uninstall a version of a non-driver component that is not installed...

Symptom: When installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you could possibly encounter errors 0x800f0a13, 0x80070003 or 0x800f0826. The CBS logs is like below: 2011-02-23 08:32:18, Info CBS SPI: System falls between the SRCleanMin and SRPreserveMin bounds. All VSS snapshots will be deleted 2011...

Some customers reported the issues of power management. Symptom: Prior to the SP1 installation the system properly went into sleep mode and properly woke up. But, after installing Windows 7 SP1 you may be not able to properly put the system into sleep mode. You have to press the power button...

Symptom: ========= On a computer with Windows 7 SP1 installed, you develop and build your application that is using ADO for database access, you find the application doesn't run on the Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 without SP1. But it runs well on Windows 7 with SP1. Cause: ======...

To recover the no-boot situation, you need to do system restore or revert to Windows 7 RTM: 1. Apply System Restore from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) At boot-up, Hit F8 --> Repair --> System Recovery Options Window --> System Restore 2. If the system restore failed, you...

Symptom: ======== When you are installing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, the system is required to reboot. During the rebooting and applyting the updates (Applying update operation xxxxxx of xxxxxx), you may encounter the 0xC000009A error and hang. So you can not log into the WIndows...

Symptom: ========= When you install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 you may receive error 0x800f081f or 0x8024200D. When you check the CBS log(C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\cbs.log), you will find the errors like below: 2011-03-03 21:38:06, Error CBS Exec: Failed to pre-stage package: Package_for_KB976933...

Here are several issues with Remote Server Administration Tools and Windows 7 SP1. (1) You can not install RSAT on Windows 7 SP1 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517239/en-us ). After installing windows7 service pack 1, remote server administration update tool cannot install on the machine. ...

In windows 2008 R2 SP1 RC, during install the WDS role, if you uncheck “Transport server” role service ,and then go ahead follow system’s request to remove dependent role services, the server manager MMC will crashed.(This works fine in windows 2008 R2) We can easily reproduce this...

Recently We are seeing some errors of Windows 7 SP1 installation failure. The installation will fail on some system(especially system language in ZH-CN) due to missing certain windows RTM driver. We tried to install SP1 but get error message. (Error_Path_Not_Found 0x80070003). Checked on the CBS log...