sfc is showing pending reboot

Question

Hi folks,

I was trying to fix some OS corruptions of a Azure hosted Win2016 box, I ran sfc /scannow and it showed me that it has detected and fixed some corruptions and my VM needs to be restarted.

Now, I have rebooted my VM 6 times at least but this message doesn't go away.

• I have tried deleting pending.xml but no help.
• I am unable to find any 'RebootPendingKey' in registries at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion."

sfc status:

Registry:

Could anyone please suggest me the way forward to fix this.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hello，

Try to revert pending actions via dism command

1. Access to an elevated command prompt either in normal or safe mode. If you cannot boot into windows, you may need to run it from the Windows Recovery Console.

2. Execute the command: dism.exe /image:C:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions.

3. Reboot your machine into safe mode.

4. In the safe mode, open an elevated Command Prompt and run the “sfc/scannow” command again.

5. Then reboot the computer in normal mode and execute the DISM with /online option.

Best Regards,

Hania Lian

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Answer 2

I deleted the pending.xml file and removed RebootPending registry which fixed the issue.