What I did was to uninstall it, reinstall it, uninstall it again and then do a disk cleanup and then manually remove the last remains of the programme directories. It hasn't reappeared since.
Your device needs the latest security updates...big time error.
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Yesterday, I got the notification "Your device needs the latest security updates" and an update window that couldn't be closed, but could be minimized to the tray. It spent hours to reach 100%, so I left it running overnight. I get up this morning, it reappears, does the same thing again...but then "restoring your version of Windows" appears on the restart and now it's downloading again. Is anyone else struggling with this, because it seems seriously bugged and stuck in a viscous cycle.
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Anonymous
2018-01-24T10:37:45+00:00 jayakay,
Can you please tell me how to keep the upgrade process disabled? I want to do the same as you.
Thank you.
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Anonymous
2018-01-24T08:21:17+00:00 I considered doing that...refreshing the computer and then trying to update Windows until it's finally on the latest version, but who's saying that the update would go through even then? And then I'd have the headache of putting all my programmes back on and restoring the settings to the way I like. Until Microsoft answer this thread with a solution, I'm keeping the upgrade process disabled, because the loop makes using my computer impossible.
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Anonymous
2018-01-23T23:59:08+00:00 Andre,
I have Version 1607 Build 14393.2035 and am getting multiple errors including 0x80004005 and the troubleshooting appears to repair many things but all and all fails to update this version and build.
This has been going on for some time, please assist,
Frank
I have the Version 1607 Build 14393 also. It is stuck in this download loop for the "latest security updates." I also tried to upgrade to the recent Version of Windows but it failed. I wonder if I should just re-install Windows.
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Anonymous
2018-01-23T16:56:32+00:00 This has been causing all sorts of problems on our systems. It doesn't appear to be respecting the delivery optimization bandwidth limit settings. Some users have complained about performance degradation. We had 1607 come in through Windows Update and it was a lot smoother than this.