Thursday, July 22, 2010

A reboot from a previous installation is pending. Please restart the system and rerun setup.

I was trying to install Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Management Tools on a Windows 7 PC. During the installation I received the following error:

A reboot from a previous installation is pending. Please restart the system and rerun setup.



I resolved this error by deleting the the REG_MULTI_SZ value PendingFileRenameOperations from HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations

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30 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    That sorted it! Cheers Clint :-)

    Thomas

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  2. AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 3:58 AM

    Thank you for putting screenshot :-) and right-click and the "Delete" part in red color. Sometimes I just need all these steps :-)

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  3. Chad MarkleyMarch 11, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    You just saved me a bunch of reboots! Thanks for taking the time to make a post!

    Chad

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  4. BramMarch 13, 2011 at 11:14 AM

    Thank you! That saved a lot of time searching ;)

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  5. UnknownMarch 23, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    Thanks for the post, you rock!

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  6. rainsgreg1961March 23, 2011 at 6:51 PM

    Wow right on the money thanks for the post

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  7. AnonymousApril 5, 2011 at 5:54 PM

    Worked for me on Server 2003. Thanks!

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  8. Sid NguyenJune 26, 2011 at 8:25 PM

    fyi this happens on exchange 2010 as well. ust be something with exchange and windows 7 i guess..

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  9. AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM

    I'm trying to do the exact same thing, albeit from an ex-Exchange 2003 server which is now just a BDC, but I have no PendingFileRenameOperations key to remove :|

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  10. AnonymousNovember 17, 2011 at 7:19 AM

    You are the best! That took care of it!

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  11. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM

    Gracias Gracias Gracias, funciona muy bien.

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  12. AnonymousDecember 22, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    ΜΠΡΑΒΟ

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  13. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2012 at 12:28 AM

    Thank You

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  14. AnonymousApril 19, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    Cool, worked for me for installing Exchange Management Tools 2010 SP2 on Windows 7. Well done!

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  15. AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 6:18 AM

    Brillient....saved a whole lot of hassle for me, thank you!

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  16. George RJune 23, 2012 at 10:30 PM

    Thanks! This did the trick for me - it's worth noting that there's another culprit for this called "InProgress" - same registry location. In my case the key wasn't present, but the rename one was.

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  17. AnonymousJune 28, 2012 at 1:27 PM

    You are awesome. I tried so many things from the windows KB and finally found your post and fixed it in seconds. Thanks!!!!

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  18. AnonymousJuly 12, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    You made my day. My Support staff were having fits over this one.

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  19. AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 7:27 AM

    Hello, might be helpful: I was trying to upgrade Ex2010 Sp1 Mgmt Tools only to SP2. Didn't let me through for "reboot pending". In my case there was no HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations key. I did a regedit search for "PendingFileRenameOperations" and there it was, under another Control Set hive. I deleted it, retried the check, and bang, it showed nice green and let me upgrade.

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  20. AnonymousOctober 25, 2012 at 4:37 AM

    Thank you Anonymous replier above!

    I spent ages trying to figure out. I was looking for the PendingFileRenameOperations key in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations but I had no such path in my directory.

    Turns out I was mus-interpreting the text.

    It's the PendingFileRenameOperations key in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager you delete. No wonder I couldn't find it! :)

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  21. AnonymousNovember 13, 2012 at 2:15 AM

    Thank You :)
    This information helped me. My installation works now.

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  22. PaulTinNZJanuary 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM

    Thanks for this handy mind saving advice.

    Worked like a treat.

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  23. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2013 at 10:25 AM

    Thanks

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  24. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 5:01 AM

    Thanks a ton:-)

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  25. AnonymousMay 8, 2013 at 8:28 AM

    Many thanks. This worked for me. I was trying to install Exchange Server 2010 Management Tools on a Windows 8 PC

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  26. UnknownMay 16, 2013 at 4:52 AM

    Perfect!

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  27. Anthony GardnerMay 31, 2013 at 5:48 AM

    Fabulous! Thanks a bunch.

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  28. AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    As everyone else is saying, thanks a bunch. Worked for installing exchange 2010 sp3 on win2008 r2, rebooted many times, but this worked like a charm!

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  29. AnonymousMay 10, 2014 at 2:52 PM

    Thank You :)
    This information helped me. My installation works now.

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  30. AnonymousMarch 4, 2015 at 8:11 AM

    Excellent. This got it resolved. Thanks!

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