Comments on: Windows Server 2008 R2 stuck during boot at Applying computer settings…

By: Mark Pattison

Mark Pattison — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:03:28 +0000

I would never have worked this one out! We turned off IPv6 some time ago, server rebooted for an update, and wouldn’t come back up. Thanks – you saved us from re-build hell!

By: CJ Milto

CJ Milto — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:54:09 +0000

I was starting to worry when our exchange server would not come up. This fixed our problem. Thank you so much.

By: Shigeru

Shigeru — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:38:16 +0000

Thank you so much ! Resolved by your solution.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:56:20 +0000

You are a god!

Does not make any sense why this happens though.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:44:45 +0000

Been having this problem for a while now, and I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying all sorts of things. The event log is not helpful in this case, apart from pointing to the fact that lots of things fail. IPv6 did the trick nicely. Thing is – I disabled IPv6 months ago, and have only seen this problem in the last few weeks. An addition to your points, though: I use hyper-V and the main (physical) network card only has the Virtual Network Switch protocol enabled, with all the ‘proper’ settings being associated with the Virtual Network card – this is where I had to enable IPv6

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:29:04 +0000

WOW!!!! Thanks a ton. you just saved me hours of debug. I turned off the IPv6 thinking it wouldn’t cause any problems and forgot I had made the change. Life saver.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:09:30 +0000

I never, ever would have considered this the problem. This is the first time unchecking IPv6 caused me a problem. You just saved me a ton of problems. Thanks!!

By: ghostbit

ghostbit — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:23:16 +0000

Thank you

By: Tahir

Tahir — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:01:16 +0000

Thanks for that, didnt expect that turning off IPv6 would be a problem.