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. 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 . Tap or click Change PC settings , and then Update and recovery . 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.

I have been experiencing this same problem for several days - the error codes are: KB2979500 KB2981655 KB2962409 KB2967917 KB2981580 KB2971203 Thank you.

Microsoft Tech Support took the following steps by remote access to my computer. In a command-prompt window running with Administrator privilege: dism /online /remove-package/packagename:Package_for_KB2919355~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.1.14 dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup Then launched my local download copy of Windows8.1-KB2919355-x64.msu. After the first reboot Control Panel, Windows Update reported "pending reboot" (or something like that). After the second reboot, Windows Update reported success. After the third reboot, Windows Update said that KB2919355 was an important update that needed to be installed, but its size was now of order 160MB instead of the previous ~750MB. I ran that install, allowing automatic download. Finally, KB2919355 appears to be installed. I had done the two dism commands and the .msu execution a few times before MSTech, always with error 800F0922 resulting. MSTech asserted that he had done nothing else to my computer and found nothing defective or interfering on my computer. My problem is gone but I was not enlightened.

i got an error 80070008 when updating to kb2919355 please help

i got an error 80070008 when updating to kb2919355 please help Try this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/windows-update-error-80070008-or-8007000e

After 2-3months with no fix, and none of the fixes suggested on the forum working and now 2.5gb of 80 updates waiting to come down after KB2919355, which wont install. I have had to spend a day rebuilding the PC, after rebuild the update then applied and all ok. So glad out the 5000 pc which we have we have only have 3 pcs on windows 8.1 all the rest are windows 7 still, this could have had serious impact to the business if we had to rebuild all 5000 pcs.

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

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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.

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.
Tap or click Change PC settings, and then Update and recovery.
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.

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Anonymous

2014-08-25T15:33:17+00:00

I have been experiencing this same problem for several days - the error codes are:

KB2979500

KB2981655

KB2962409

KB2967917

KB2981580

KB2971203

Thank you.
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Anonymous

2014-08-25T16:34:05+00:00

Microsoft Tech Support took the following steps by remote access to my computer.

In a command-prompt window running with Administrator privilege:

dism /online /remove-package/packagename:Package_for_KB2919355~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.1.14

dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

Then launched my local download copy of Windows8.1-KB2919355-x64.msu.

After the first reboot Control Panel, Windows Update reported "pending reboot" (or something like that). After the second reboot, Windows Update reported success. After the third reboot, Windows Update said that KB2919355 was an important update that needed to be installed, but its size was now of order 160MB instead of the previous ~750MB. I ran that install, allowing automatic download. Finally, KB2919355 appears to be installed.

I had done the two dism commands and the .msu execution a few times before MSTech, always with error 800F0922 resulting. MSTech asserted that he had done nothing else to my computer and found nothing defective or interfering on my computer. My problem is gone but I was not enlightened.
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Anonymous

2014-08-26T20:08:34+00:00

i got an error 80070008 when updating to kb2919355 please help
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Anonymous

2014-08-26T20:14:43+00:00

i got an error 80070008 when updating to kb2919355 please help

Try this:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/windows-update-error-80070008-or-8007000e
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Anonymous

2014-08-27T09:16:23+00:00

After 2-3months with no fix, and none of the fixes suggested on the forum working and now 2.5gb of 80 updates waiting to come down after KB2919355, which wont install. I have had to spend a day rebuilding the PC, after rebuild the update then applied and all ok. So glad out the 5000 pc which we have we have only have 3 pcs on windows 8.1 all the rest are windows 7 still, this could have had serious impact to the business if we had to rebuild all 5000 pcs.
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