Pete. Net. Live - KB0. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Hangs on "Performing cleanup"KB ID 0. Dtd 2. 2/1. 2/1. 0 Problem. Saw this a while ago, and just thought it was a “One Off”.
Then on a visit to a client yesterday I saw it on both machines I was working on. Solution. This might scare you, but you need to kill the update, don’t panic at this stage SP3 is already on. Update 0. 5/0. 4/1. Before continuing please read the feedback below. Ive never personally seen any adverse effects from doing this and I’ve rolled out a few thousand service packs.
SP3 install stalls at 'Performing Cleanup' 11 posts tawd1992 Ars Centurion Registered: Jan 8, 2003 Posts: 225 Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:44 pm I've had this happen to me the last 3 or 4 times I installed SP3 on WinXP pc's. It seems other people. John Wolf wrote: > How long does this process take? The install seems to have finished and all > virus software has been disabled, but this performing Cleanup screen is > taking forever. Is this normal? > > > John > If you do a search on SP3 Performing Cleanup. On 'performing cleanup'. After giving it about an hour to finish (and sometimes it actually will) I just cancel it and reboot. And the Service. > Sounds like the machines you are installing Windows XP Service Pack > 3 onto are not really 'ready' (properly > 3. >. Hello Chad. I have faced this problem with my system while installing SP3. It tool me more than an hour & a half to complete the installation but i finally managed to fix the Performing Cleanup screen problem. What you need to do is simply restart the computer.
Right click your task bar and select “Task Manager”. On the applications tab > Select the Software Update Installation Wizard > Click End Task > Accept any warnings etc. Reboot the PC > SP3 installation will recover and finish, ignore any errors or warnings just let it boot up and you will be at SP3, at this point finish the good work by going to windows update and getting all the post SP3 updates.
Feedback from Patrick Wright (0. I am sending you a message concerning your advice on the Windows XP SP3 install “hanging” at “Performing Cleanup…”. В The advice you give is to end the installation task at this point and reboot the computer.
The truth of the matter is that during the “Performing Cleanup…” step, there is indeed quite a bit of activity and updating going on. В I’ve had this step take as long as 6 hours on slower machines on our network but it finishes successfully. For testing purposes, I tried your solution on three training machines that were still running SP2 and ran into numerous issues after rebooting with getting several programs to install that require a minimum of SP3–Adobe Standard/Professional 1.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) http:// Question 37 8/30/2008 1:25:00 AM 6/20/2014 3:52. KB ID 0000364 Dtd 22/12/10 Problem Saw this a while ago, and just thought it was a “One Off”. Then on a visit to a client yesterday I saw it on both machines I was working on. Solution This might scare you, but you need to kill the update, don’t panic at this stage SP3. Windows XP SP3 stuck on performing cleanup. Details of the process, wrong solution that you should not follow and how to optimize the process. Installing Service Pack 3 on Windows XP without taking a few minutes to prepare the process might be time.
Disk Cleanup helps free up space on your hard drive Disk Cleanup searches your drive, and then shows you temporary. Windows XP Professional Product Documentation > Windows components Using Disk Cleanup Disk Cleanup helps free up space on. I tried updating Windows XP to the latest service pack (SP3) and after about 45 minutes or so, the installation appeared to be frozen. I was using an offline setup file of Windows XP SP3 (didn't use Windows Update). After waiting about 15 more minutes and still no.
I tried your suggested fix on. В It appears that even though Windows shows in system properties to be upgraded to SP3, it is not completely finished if you stopped the install prematurely by ending that task. В I strongly advise to consider changing your solution to simply wait out the “Performing Cleanup…” task until it finishes. В It can take a while. В I’ve found one way to help the process along is to set the process for the updater to “high priority” in task manager. В This resulted in drastically faster install times when the installer seemed to “hang” at that part of the install.
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