Error: We couldn’t complete the updates, Undoing changes. Don’t turn off your computer.

This error may appear anytime a Windows Update fails. To investigate possible solutions, we need to start with the specific error code.

We can do this by viewing your update history.

1. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen (or, if you're using a mouse, pointing to the lower-right corner of the screen and moving the mouse pointer up), and tap or click Settings.
2. Tap or click Change PC settings, and then Update and recovery.
3. Tap or click View your update history.

View failed update error code.

Please post here with your error code, so that the Community can try to help guide you appropriately.

Code 800F0902

and how can I copy that? It does not allow me to copy and paste. There are a bunch of updates that failed to install

and how can I copy that? It does not allow me to copy and paste.

       

In a cmd window, to Copy you can right-click Mark, then drag, then press Enter.  Alternatively you can use the Edit menu for its Mark command and move the text pointer to where you want to start your excerpt with your arrow keys then create your selection by pressing Shift- and using your arrow keys.  Then again, press Enter to put the selection into the Clipboard.

I appreciate the attempt, but have no clue what any of this means or how to do it. People asked me to copy and paste the error codes I am getting in trying (unsuccessfully) to get windows updates to download and install. I have no idea how to do that. I cannot copy and paste using Ctrl C and Ctrl V; it will not copy. I do not see how to access an "Edit menu" or what "Mark" means. The reference to a cmd window makes no sense to me since I am seeing these error codes when I try to download and install -- not in a cmd window.

The impenetrability of Windows has changed little since the baffling days of C:/ and yet Microsoft will not allow you to contact help without paying a ransom -- even though this is a new laptop with Windows 8.1 and I should be able to get some comprehensible support without being gouged. Any further clues would be most appreciated

RA:   to Copy you can right-click

I appreciate the attempt, but have no clue what any of this means or how to do it.

Did you try?

I will acknowledge that the Edit menu is obscure but that is the old way.  It's in the window's menu.  Alt-Space.

Also, there is always Google or BING...

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/copy-to-the-clipboard-from-the-windows-command-prompt/

(Google search for

    copy selection cmd window

)