Any application can set a pending reboot flag in the operating system

3 Jul

Any application can set a pending reboot flag in the operating system through a registry key.  Sometimes a reboot does not clear the flag.  This is what setup is detecting.

To work around the pending reboot issue:
1. Open Regedit
2. Find the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager”
3. Rename the “PendingFileRenameOperations” value to “PendingFileRenameOperations2”