Comments on: Windows 7 installation hangs at "Completing Installation" – FIX

By: Pecmoney

Pecmoney — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:27:59 +0000

Hey Ive tried all the suggestions here .. im on a hp dv1000 laptop.. still hangs on completion. Shift F10 doesn’t bring anything up. Just locks. Also do you do the Shift F10 after the screens refreshes or immediately after the restart?

By: Kilian

Kilian — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:27:44 +0000

GOD DAMNED IT WOKRS!!!! Windows sucks men.

By: Manley Evangelista

Manley Evangelista — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:23:38 +0000

Also, I’m using an RTM version. So this isn’t just for beta. It will also work on RTM, but I’m not sure if its going to work on the Retail version. Just give it a try.

By: Manley Evangelista

Manley Evangelista — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:21:02 +0000

lazuline’s suggestion worked!

Basicly, after it booted up. I pressed Shift and F10, then type in explorer.exe

Then let it do it’s thing.

Then after that, it will restart, and voila. You’ve just bypassed the Completing Setup.

By: pjg

pjg — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:49:39 +0000

I am trying about to days to install w7 on 2hd in Raid 0 mode but every time installation stop at “installing updates” step.I checked all possible drivers and I used Lazuline’s tip also, but the results was a message “windows cannot find explorer.exe.Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again”.
Is there any way to pass over this step?

By: djdat

djdat — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:11:16 +0000

Bump! Came upon this after googling my own username lol

Most of these problems can be solved by burning the ISO at 2x speed. I solved mine but on other machines this was the case.

Also in the BIOS turn of EIST as this causes big problems also.

By: Dusty-Lynn

Dusty-Lynn — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:11:12 +0000

Thank you Lazuline!Shift-F10 worked like a charm! My computer didn’t freeze as yours did, so just so everyone knows a hard restart is not always required, it is possible for it to restart itself! =D

By: billy

billy — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:43:26 +0000

Not gonna lie, that shift+f10 trick worked miracles for me… amazing, thanks!

By: lazulinefan

lazulinefan — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:28:18 +0000

thanks lazuline!

By: LifeBringer

LifeBringer — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:36:33 +0000

Funny thing happened to my netbook (NB100) and I. I’ve been suffering allocation errors. So when I decided to install Win7 n (European Union mandated version) my system hung up at ‘Completing Installation’. When I tried the Lazuline ‘Shift + F10′trick it gave me the actual explorer.exe! It was logged in as ‘SYSTEM’. I tried control panel, but it gave me a configured identity is incorrect/ server process … check the username and password error. ::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}

IE didn’t launch, Calculator did, Wordpad did, no Aero, Windows PowerShell worked, hit show desktop to hide the installation window, etc…

Anyway, restarted(shutdown /r) through cmd.exe (only way). Didn’t work, restarted and it gave me the safe mode option suggesting to repair startup through the installation disk/usb.