When a user logs off, restarts, or shutdowns the pc, the pc locks up for a couple of minutes , then a message box pops up were you can select log off, restart or shutdown. Again it could take as much as 2 to 5 minutes for the pc to restart,log off, or shutdown.

Take a look in the pc’s applicaiton log. If you see a many errors regarding ESENT then your windows update data store is corrupted. Windows is trying to repair and or fix the datastore but windows can not.

Log on as a user with Administrator rights. Then open a command console window, cmd.

-> click start, run, then type in cmd and click ok

In the console window:

type:

1. net stop wuauserv <hit enter>
2. cd /d %windir%\softwaredistribution cd /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution <enter>
3. rd /s /Q Datastore <enter>
4. net start wuauserv <enter>
5. exit <enter>

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