{"id":2240,"date":"2016-03-23T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachmadona.net\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:58:08","slug":"windows-7-always-shown-exclamation-mark-on-the-shutdown-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Always Shown Exclamation Mark on the Shutdown Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adf.ly\/1YxPNp\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2241 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/exclamation-mark-windows-update-300x84.jpg\" alt=\"exclamation mark windows update\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently i&#8217;ve had weird situation on my classic laptop, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.lenovo.com\/id\/id\/documents\/pd015812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lenovo Thinkpad X220<\/a>, which is the shutdown button always shown exclamation mark to update Windows. I&#8217;ve tried to click the button to start update and shutdown the Windows, but unfortunately the icon still persist on the next restart \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>After search on some pages, now i have a clue. This condition may occur cause by broken updates which has not installed successfully and intercept another updates to relies on. So, how to cover this problem? Let&#8217;s go to the next paragraph and I&#8217;ll show you the instruction.<\/p>\n<p>First, You have to shutdown the Windows Update service and BITS (Background Intelligence Transfer Service) in order to cut down the transfer files for updates. Just press Windows+R button then type &#8220;services.msc&#8221; to go to services wizard. Choose Windows Update and right click then stop the service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adf.ly\/1YxPRA\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2242 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/exclamation-mark-windows-update-2-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"exclamation mark windows update 2\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again choose BITS then stop the service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adf.ly\/1YxPUH\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2243 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/exclamation-mark-windows-update-3-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"exclamation mark windows update 3\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, go to C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution and delete all the contents inside. This folder contains all updates for your computer. All we have to do is to cleanup the broken updates. Because we don&#8217;t know which one update is broken so the best practice is delete all folders \ud83d\ude00<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adf.ly\/1YxPXM\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2244 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/exclamation-mark-windows-update-4-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"exclamation mark windows update 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After delete process is completed, restart\u00a0 the Windows Update &amp; BITS service again. Finally you&#8217;ll see the exclamation mark is gone forever :p<\/p>\n<p>HTH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently i&#8217;ve had weird situation on my classic laptop, Lenovo Thinkpad X220, which is the shutdown button always shown exclamation mark to update Windows. I&#8217;ve tried to click the button to start update and shutdown the Windows, but unfortunately the icon still persist on the next restart \ud83d\ude41 After search on some pages, now i&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,20],"tags":[171,357,507],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application","category-computer","category-tips-trick","tag-exclamation-marks","tag-repair-windows-update","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}