Emergency: t5570e in endless reboot loop: Applying update operation

[WildDoktor]

Ugh...what's up with this? i was logged into the thin client as admin, trying to join the thing to a domain. I decided to look for windows updates; it said they were controlled by "your system administrator" (that's me, btw). Finally got it to join the domain and rebooted.

It started applying windows updates (27 of them), got thru 27, then rebooted.

And now it's in this endless reboot loop. Boots, gets windows logo and flag, then flashed:

"Applying update operation 14999 of 14999 (\Registry\Machi...)" (it counts up from 0 very quickly, and the messege in parantheses is different for each "operation").

Help! Any advice?  I don't want to spend the night in this client's office tonight!  I've got my wife running to the store for an 8gb usb stick so I can do an HP ThinState Capture from the other 5570, which is working, and hopefully restore that state to this thin client.  Sheesh...

[WildDoktor · Accepted solution]

"HP ThinState Capture from the other 5570" was the answer...couldn't wait for us to troubleshoot it further.

15 minutes to capture, 20 minutes to install.