The windows 10 fall upgrade 1709 fails after about 45% mark.. Then gives an error message and returns system to 1703

Hello Andrew,

It is possible that you are experiencing this issue due to some corrupted Windows Update components. To help you out with your concern, we recommend performing a repair upgrade using the Windows 10 ISO file by following the instructions in this Forum Article. Performing a repair upgrade can repair broken operating system files while preserving your personal files, settings and installed applications.

Update us on the result so that we can further help.

I have tried clearing out the updates...

I have run the updated "Update Trouble Shooter (running as administrator)"

I have tried the repair upgrade..... (Using the Windows 10 ISO file)

They all get to the same point and die....

I have deferred this update. I am worried as the older 1703  does not seem to get the security updates that the 1709 version gets..  (I have multiple Windows 10 systems)

I also tried the Beta upgrade program to get a more advanced update....  It also failed the same way...  This is very repeatable... and happened after running all the following debug steps (same result)

Method 2:

1.      Open an elevated command prompt

2.      Type and run the following command:

Sfc /scannow

Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

3. Then check if the issue still persists

Method 3:

1.      Open an elevated command prompt

2.      Run the following command:

net stop bits

net stop wuauserv

net stop appidsvc

net stop cryptsvc

ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old

ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old

net start bits

net start wuauserv

net start appidsvc

net start cryptsvc

3. Exit command prompt and check if the issue persists

Method 4:

1.      Open registry editor by running regedit.exe

2.      Back up the registry first before making changes to it

3.      Navigate to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

4.      Check if PendingFileRenameOperations exists under the Session Manager key

5.      If it exists, please remove it

6.      Restart computer and check if issue persists

Hello Andrew,

It is possible that you are experiencing this issue due to some corrupted Windows Update components. To help you out with your concern, we recommend performing a repair upgrade using the Windows 10 ISO file by following the instructions in this Forum Article. Performing a repair upgrade can repair broken operating system files while preserving your personal files, settings and installed applications.

Update us on the result so that we can further help.

I have tried clearing out the updates...

I have run the updated "Update Trouble Shooter (running as administrator)"

I have tried the repair upgrade..... (Using the Windows 10 ISO file)

They all get to the same point and die....

I have deferred this update. I am worried as the older 1703  does not seem to get the security updates that the 1709 version gets..  (I have multiple Windows 10 systems)

Hello Andrew,

It is possible that you are experiencing this issue due to some corrupted Windows Update components. To help you out with your concern, we recommend performing a repair upgrade using the Windows 10 ISO file by following the instructions in this Forum Article. Performing a repair upgrade can repair broken operating system files while preserving your personal files, settings and installed applications.

Update us on the result so that we can further help.

This is a Joke, I have this issue on one of my PCs.  "can not configure one of the system components..."

If can't fix the update why ask to update again and again and fail :)

Either fix or don't re update with same error.

Is there was a way to figure out what component/device is causing the failure?

I have gone through all the debug steps and the final solution is to re-install Windows 10.....  (Including the helpful guided Microsoft debug page)  I would prefer that I not spend all the time reinstalling all my applications...  and setting them up...  (This could take over 3 days)

It would be helpful for everyone if Microsoft would come up with a small utility to indicate what issue is causing the fall update to fail.... (If we knew what component was failing..  we could delete/repair it)

For now I have selected the defer option on the fall update.. but I am back in the same bind when I was forced to update to windows 10 from Windows 8.1 and lose Windows Media Center....  (The odd thing is that I have updated from Vista to Windows 10 with no issues... and here we have a feature update blocking the way...)

Microsoft... Please help

This is a Joke, I have this issue on one of my PCs.  "can not configure one of the system components..."

If can't fix the update why ask to update again and again and fail :)

Either fix or don't re update with same error.

Update: 1/24/2018

I don't want to upgrade/update if all is working fine. Don't want to reinstall OS or anything else for that matter.

I haven't been getting popup msgs asking to update which is good.