How Do I Fix Windows Update?
⏰ Windows Update can get confused or stuck. I’ll review ways to fix Windows Update, including what I refer to as the nuclear option.
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Chapters
0:00 Fix Windows Update
0:55 Start with the troubleshooter
2:10 False positives
3:10 Dive into the Command Prompt
5:00 Running batch files
6:00 Finally: fix Windows Update manually
7:45 Running batch files
12:30 What did we just do?
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Several things to try.
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You have a excellent presentation style.
The real answer should have been don't try and fix it (the latest update that won't install). It's Microsoft's mess. Let them fix it.
I fix the Windows updates with an upgrade install. Works every time. Troubleshooter has never ever worked for me.
My PC is not compatible with Windows 11 apparently, and I noticed a few months ago that the monthly update is no longer happening for my Windows 10. I consider the Windows update to be fixed in this case, and I'm keeping this PC until it's as relevant as a rotary phone.
At work for some unknown reason our company customized installation media for MS Office while installing disabled the "Network List Service" after a reboot. This happened on every single PC we installed. After this service was disabled the Network icon did not show on the task bar. And if you got to the network settings page it would crash in a second or 2. Windows Update would report a failure code while looking for updates. After several hours of trying the troubleshooter / just fix it, SFC /Scannow, DISM … nothing helped. It took me many hours to find a post about this which lead me to check and see that indeed "Network List Service" was disabled and that reenabling it fixed all of the issues. I then after some testing found out that our Office installer was the cause. I don't know if this was something someone in software licensing did or what but it was quite a frustrating problem.