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

Anonymous
2014-05-14T19:34:39+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-23T07:10:41+00:00

    Whenever i install updates in windows 8.1 on going to PC settings and then Update and Recovery. First the content is download and then it is installed but at the end (after all the process) it says that failed to installed the updates.

    When i went to the update history it is giving error of 80200056 all time. Can you please help me with this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-21T00:38:46+00:00

    looks like I am getting the error for 3 of the 11 updates so far 

    update for windows 8.1 for x64-based systems (KB3065988)

    Security Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3070102)

    Security Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3067505)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-20T18:50:00+00:00

    Here is the screen shot with the error code for one of the failures, actually have a couple:

    [Error code 0x80240055]

    Looks like that one is just a return code, not an error

    http://errco.de/win32/wuerror-h/wu_e_au_call_cancelled/0x80240055/

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-20T18:20:05+00:00

    Here is the screen shot with the error code for one of the failures, actually have a couple:

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-07-20T08:02:28+00:00

                 running two operating systems might be the problem 

    Running two operating systems (e.g. dual booting) might actually be a help because then you would at least have something to break the loop.   See others comments in this thread about using bcdedit to get out of the loop in a similar way. 

    BTW saying IE and Chrome makes me think that you are thinking of your browsers, not two OS but I understand that there may be such a thing as Chrome an OS, so in that case you would already be dual-booting.

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