Fall Creator update fails to install at 81%

Thank you so much.  We've been fighting the 81% lockup on 2 Gateway pc's for months now.  We removed the Anatel cards and no more problems, thanks!

I have been having problems with the creators fall update for a week and stumbled upon your post while looking for a solution. I purchased a usb adapter and disabled my old wireless card in device manager rather than remove it and am pleased to say that this worked at the first attempt.

Can't thank you enough for posting your solution.

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.

More than a year trying to update Windows 10 to 1703 and 1704! Even with a clean install, and nothing works for my Packar Bell ixtreme M5850. I removed the WiFi card and... surprise! It was an Anatel. And finally, it all Works fine. Thanks, thanks a lot.

yes but if you have a wifi card installed it may still be causing the hang up with the system.

I was connected by Ethernet but still had the card in the machine, removed the card and everything updated fine, my machine is from 2012.