Keep on saying that “A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending” at the pre-requisites installation for SharePoint 2013

Keep on saying that “A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending” at the pre-requisites installation for SharePoint 2013.

                                   

Issue: Keep on saying that “A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending” after the pre-requisites installation for SharePoint 2013. After I run a prerequisiteinstaller.exe successfully and download all pre requests During a SharePoint 2013 install. I got the error "A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending".  even if I already rebooted.

Solution: Please follow the steps below to resolve the issue.

1.    Open the Registry editor (run > regedit)

2.    Navigate to this path “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager“

3.    Rename the “PendingFileRenameOperations” value to “OldPendingFileRenameOperations“

4.    Reboot the server

Solution 2: If you see the issue still, Then Delete the key as below and check again.

1.    Open the Registry editor (run > regedit)

2.    Navigate to this path “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager“

3.    Rename the “PendingFileRenameOperations” value to “OldPendingFileRenameOperations“

4.    Reboot the server

  

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.