Your device needs the latest security updates...big time error.

Anonymous
2017-12-02T14:20:45+00:00

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.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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Anonymous
2018-01-10T09:30:43+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-22T02:37:44+00:00

    MS should store Windows 10 in the clouds as to avoid so many complaints, but is unable to do so for some reason. It is not acceptable that a company like MS rejects storage in the clouds. It is always good to remember that MS is a monopoly... maybe this is the reason why MS rejects anything new.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-21T20:37:13+00:00

    Well shoot, my hiding of the update did not work.

    Still, every day, windows update assistant comes on and starts downloading the update, even though it is going to fail. My only option now is to use task manager to close it, but that only helps if I notice it. if i have stepped away from the computer, and it gets it downloaded before I notice it, when I go to shut down it makes me "update and shut down" and as stated before, it takes hours to restart and tell me it didn't work.

    AGAIN I wish Microsoft would give me some way to stop this.

    Can't afford another computer right now :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-20T15:50:37+00:00

    I am having the same exact thing and it ran for over 8 hours just to download and the install took another hour. The error screen appeared and I ran the trouble shooter and it uninstalled them and then ran another 9 hours...and then poof like magic the MS Store app disappeared so now nothing works. I am so done with this nonsense...were this machine not a Christmas gift I would have wiped it an installed a different OS. I click for support and get into this area and this is like reading Japanese to me. WAY, WAY above my skill level. Please could anyone make this easy for a future senior of America and borderline retarded as well? I am now unable to download anything because the stupid Microsoft Store app is MIA. So now what am I supposed to do? I can't find it to download it nor do I have the discs as the Windows 10 OS came pre-installed...please, please can anyone help??

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T00:55:16+00:00

    I use two notebooks. One notebook was purchased having Windows 8.1 installed, whereas the other had Windows 10 originally installed. For some reason, MS insisted that I should use Windows 10 in lieu of Windows 8.1. Incidentally, such offer for free was quite strange to me, but I upgraded my older notebook Windows 8.1... In the case of my other notebook, I did buy Windows 10. I repeat, I did BUY it! As Windows is a monopoly, MS does not care for its customers.

    In both of them the updating process is time consuming and I am talking about very long hours. I keep on saying that MS team which developed Windows 10 is not qualified whatsoever. Windows XP was the best operational system ever, but MS has offered worser and worser Windows versions. Frankly speaking, Windows XP met with my necessities, but MS needed something to sell and launched further versions of it.

    I look forward to seeing a competitor of MS.

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