Comments on: Windows Setup couldn’t start properly, Please reboot your PC and run set up again

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:09:00 +0000

This certainly resolved the problem for me in 1709, TWO years after this article was posted. I gather that once the upgrade fails, it probably will never succeed, regardless of how many times you follow the error message’s suggestion to “run setup again.”

Surely, the setup program “knows” what caused it to fail — i.e., it stopped at a point where it needed access to a file or a service or some other identifiable reason. So I ask for the one thousandth time in my computing life, “WHY, WHY, WHY cannot the error message point to the cause of the stoppage?!?!”

For now, thanks very much to Mr. Khanse for this solution.

By: Nguy?n Duy

Nguy?n Duy — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:19:00 +0000

Thank you so much :))

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:05:00 +0000

This full broke my computer I can’t boot windows 10 anymore

By: Eric D

Eric D — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:05:00 +0000

In reply to sai chakradhar.

Try Disk Cleaner (part of windows)
After it scans C:, click [system files] button at bottom left.
It scans C: again.
You should see about 16 things
one – ‘Temporary installation files’ or something. [$Windows.~BT and $Windows.~WS]
other – ‘Previous version of windows’, too [C:windows.old] – if you delete this you can’t rollback.
Check the ones you want to delete, uncheck the others.
Go!

By: sai chakradhar

sai chakradhar — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 08:09:00 +0000

can’t delete windows bt folder please help