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Windows Start Menu Locked Up, unable to restart machine.

Have a situation where installing SOPHOS causes the Start Menu of Windows 10 1709 to stop working, also seems to stop all "User Experience" things, such as Settings Page etc. When you try to restart, you get the error:

task host is stopping background tasks windows 10 Device install reboot required

You have to hard kill it to reboot/shutdown the machine. 

This is a fresh installation of USB
Installed Acrobat Reader, Media Player classic, Irfran View, GreenShot, Chrome and Java.

Used the new Deployment from SOPHOS MSP Admin Console and the "Download Complete Windows Installer"

Used the following command to install:
SophosSetup.exe --customertoken="xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx" --mgmtserver="dzr-mcs-amzn-us-west-2-fa88.upe.p.hmr.sophos.com" --products="antivirus;intercept" --quiet

I seem to be able to "jostle" the start menu by right clicking on the start button.  

At this stage, I am unable to install SOPHOS AV



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  • I guess it would be interesting to see if this fixes it?  Can you reproduce the issue reliably to know it helps?

    As a test (ideally on a test computer but this should all be pretty safe) I would do as follows:

    1. Check you don't have a pendingfilerenameoperation value under:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
    If you do, reboot until it is gone.

    2. Download http://test.hitmanpro.com/hmpalert3b734.exe to say C:\hmpatest\ but it doesn't really matter, I will just reference this location for guidance.

    3. Open an Admin prompt in C:\hmpatest\ and run:
    hmpalert3b734.exe /upgrade

    4. The following location should be now populated with the new files:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\HitmanPro.Alert\Update Files\

    5. The registry key in step 1 will also be created with the entries to put the new files in place at restart.

    I would then suggest moving the C:\Program Files (x86)\HitmanPro.Alert\Update Files\ directory to C:\hmpatest\ and delete the pendingfilerenameoperation key.

    Essentially up until now, this is just extracting the files from the installer and moving the files and deleting the registry key responsible for making the switch from the old to new files on restart.

    If this is just a test computer/snapshot you're happy to blow away if it all goes wrong you could just reboot and "all" the new files will be put in place.  I.e. the service, the driver, the dlls.

    If you're being more cautious and interested which file specifically may have fixed it, you could replace each file as a test.

    For example - If it's the DLL file that is significant, i.e the file injected into each process, you could rename: C:\Windows\System32\hmpalert.dll to C:\Windows\System32\hmpalert.dll.orig and copy in the new C:\hmpatest\Update Files\hmpalert_x64.dll and rename it to C:\Windows\System32\hmpalert.dll.  Is this enough, etc...

    Maybe replace the driver, service exe, next etc...

    Hopefully this makes sense.

    Regards,

    Jak

  • Is anyone still having an issue as long as the sign on option is disabled with the latest IX?

    We have done several machines and as long as we disable that first we are good to go.

  • All our systems seem fine now after disabling the sign on. We still have our case open and escalated with Sophos though until it is fully resolved.

  • I was prepping a computer with a fresh Win10 install this week and the issue occurred when the sign on option was disabled.  So far, it only triggered the one time and I rebooted it at least 6 times.