Windows 10 update freezes at 82% complete

Anonymous
2017-12-17T22:20:14+00:00

Gateway SX 2851 Desktop has been trying to update to Win 10 version 1709 build 16299.98 from version 1703 build 15063.726. It started as a win 7.

This has happened with version 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809 (skipped), & 1903.

Every time the update runs it freezes at 82% complete. It will sit there for hours on the blue updating screen but the spinner is frozen. It appears there is no hard disk activity happening. My only choice at that point is to power-off the computer. When I re-power it and restart it attempts to recover the update and fails. It then reverts back to the previous version. 

This has happened 3 times now. I have uninstalled McAfee before the first attempt. I also uninstalled Easy Tether and Virtual Box. No other programs are running.

Any ideas from anybody?

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Anonymous
2018-01-29T02:05:37+00:00

Hi, Bill, I too, have had the exact same problems as you, even though I have an older computer, an Acer Aspire from 2011.. I found this in another thread:

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I was having a similar problem, and after multiple attempts (over 7 times) trying different solutions like disabling virus protection, disabling startup programs, running update database corruption repair, etc. My computer never got past 81% before freezing and not updating.

I stumbled across a forum talking about problems with  Anatel  PCI-E Wlan cards (wi-fi) and old drivers that would hang up their computers and after removing the card (not just disabling) their machines would update and run fine. Since I was running my machine through an Ethernet connection, connected to an access point, I could remove the Anatel card in my computer and still have an internet connection. I tried it, and my computer a Gateway FX6860 updated to Windows 10 Fall Creators version without any problems.

Check to see if you have an Anatel wifi card and remove it and replace it with something newer or an Ethernet or usb connection to the internet and try the update. this worked for me.

I took out the Anatel Wi-Fi card and tried the updates again and they WORKED.

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Anonymous
2018-05-05T18:22:55+00:00

Pull out the PCIe Wireless card and run the update again. Wireless cards based on the RT3090 PCIe wireless card hang every Windows Update since the Creators update, including the Fall Creators Update and the April 2018 update. (1703, 1709, 1804)

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T21:17:09+00:00

    I took out the Anatel Wi-Fi card and tried the updates again and they WORKED.

    I have just spent the last 2 days trying to get 1709 loaded on a 1 year old computer.

    I tried everything that every other post suggested.

    Anti Virus, cleanup, the works.

    It always locked up at 82% no matter what I tried.

    Then I found your post about the Anatel wi-fi card.

    I looked in the system and sure enough, there was an Anatel PCI-E card.

    I removed it, and started all over again installing 1709 from

    a media creation disk, and IT WORKED!

    THANK YOU BOBROTH1951 !

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-13T09:54:43+00:00

    Another upvote for Bobroth1951's solution; it worked perfectly on my Gateway after countless forced update restarts and always the dreaded 82% freeze.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-14T03:29:37+00:00

    Wish I had the option to back up my computer prior to an automatic update of 1709. Now I have zero access to my WIFI adapter and have been searching for days now for an answer to fix the problem. Even contacted Microsoft for support and got pushed along to xbox support. This is very frustrating since I'm not a computer expert. I'd like to know when Microsoft plans to fix these bugs?  I will now have to try to figure out how to stop automatic updates, so I don't get stuck in this hell hole again.

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