Solved! Recent cumulative update failure?

[Coyle]

I've tried using the update troubleshooter, dism, manually updating etc but it still doesn't work. Is anyone else having this issue, know how to get it to update successfully?

 

[OlyAR15]

I had that problem once. Ended up reinstalling Windows.

 

[mikeymikec]

I've tried using the update troubleshooter, dism, manually updating etc but it still doesn't work. Is anyone else having this issue, know how to get it to update successfully?

If it's just the one update failing, I'd mark it as hidden and see if the next month's cumulative update installs successfully.

Though I encountered a customer's Win8x system recently which consistently failed with a particular series of cumulative updates. If they had gone with my recommendation, I would have clean installed their system. I tried every trick I know to get WU to work properly in that situation.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, it can be a real head-scratcher.

In my friend's case, I think that a Windows Upgrade that came down WU, combined with bad / flaky RAM, corrupted his certificate store, now no updates are verifying and allowed to install.

I keep offering to walk him through fresh installing Win10, but he can't be arsed.

 

[UsandThem]

I've tried using the update troubleshooter, dism, manually updating etc but it still doesn't work. Is anyone else having this issue, know how to get it to update successfully?

When all else fails, a repair install can fix many OS quirks like update issues: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/fix-windows-10-repair-install

 

[OlyAR15]

When all else fails, a repair install can fix many OS quirks like update issues: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/fix-windows-10-repair-install

That might work, but it didn't for me. It was one of the troubleshooting items I attempted before biting the bullet and doing a clean re-install.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Can you even make a MS USB Windows Boot USB? My friend's rig couldn't even do that.

 

[Hulk]

Windows 11 clean install with a new rig in October. Suddenly stopped updating a few months ago. Tried everything. Always get the same error message "Something has not gone as expected..." Then the system reverts to the prior state. System is 100% stable.

Never seen anything like this and I've been building Windows machines for 30 years. I'm going to just wait until there is an update that comes along that works or something forces me to reload Windows. Until then I will carry on.

 

[Hulk]

When I try to do a repair install after clicking "set up" Windows spins a while and then it tell me that my computer (currently running Windows 11) can't be verified to run Windows 11.

This inability to update has something to do with Windows 11 hardware validation I am thinking due to this error message.