

However, in most other cases, if you force restart your PC during the “configuring update for Windows 10” phase, you should still be able to boot into Windows normally. In some rare cases, Windows might fail to load on next reboot if you interrupt the update process. If you forcibly restart or shutdown your PC during the “configuring update for Windows 10” phase, there is a risk that you may cause damage and corruption to the core system files that Windows was trying to update. Can I safely force restart or shut down my PC during Windows Update?

If you are using SSD as the system drive, the update should finish quicker. Stuck and slow Windows update is especially common in old laptop or desktop PC that still use HDD as the system drive. If your hard drive is very congested and fragmented, it may cause slow reading and writing speed on the drive, thus, requiring more time to finish a Windows update. The amount of time needed for an update to finish, according to our experience, depends on the performance of your PC, especially the hard drive’s speed. It is still running even though it seems stuck at certain percentage (commonly 57%). The fact is that the Windows update isn’t stuck. The “configuring update for Windows 10” progress will eventually get to 100% and finish the update by itself. If you’ve waited for an hour, let it sit for another couple of hours ( preferably 3 hours or more) or leave it running overnight. The best thing to do in this scenario is to just wait it out. What should I do to finish the Windows update? That said, it is not an error that requires action to be taken. It may stuck for a couple of hours, but it will eventually get to 100 percent. According to users’ reports and what I’ve personally experienced in recent updates, it is common on some PC that the “configuring update for Windows 10” phase may stuck at 57 percent.
