Failure to install Windows 10 April Update(version 1803)

Only five times? Mine tried to update itself almost DAILY. It kept flashing that I needed to restart my computer almost DAILY! It took three techs from Microsoft three times trying to get the thing to work remotely, only for to NEVER work, and the fourth tech after they kicked my problem upstairs finally say it won't work on your computer. He had to do nasty stuff remotely to get my computer to totally ignore that update. Yes, it's hard to believe that Microsoft would push through an update that will not work on all computers and not make it an OPTIONAL update......with WARNINGS!

Thanks for that. It goes to prove that I was right to block 1803 with "Metered connection"  I'm now happily running on my old Windows 7 machine anyway. 

MICROSOFT:  I don't know why your forced this PC breaker of an update on unsuspecting users but the one thing you won't do is make me buy a new machine with fresh version of WIN 10 or whatever you roll out next !!!!

For the future LINUX MINT looks pretty good these days.

Only five times? Mine tried to update itself almost DAILY. It kept flashing that I needed to restart my computer almost DAILY! It took three techs from Microsoft three times trying to get the thing to work remotely, only for to NEVER work, and the fourth tech after they kicked my problem upstairs finally say it won't work on your computer. He had to do nasty stuff remotely to get my computer to totally ignore that update. Yes, it's hard to believe that Microsoft would push through an update that will not work on all computers and not make it an OPTIONAL update......with WARNINGS!

So many users facing the same issue! Since when has a simple upgrade become so complicated??

I tried (wasted my time) to upgrade ~5 times and have given up for good. Maybe using ubuntu is better

I tried to do the manual update, but kept getting errors at net stop msiserver, said the Windows installer system is not started. I tried typing in the next command and it said cannot rename because item at C':\Windows\SoftwareDistribution' does not exist.

Using the upgrade assistant worked for me. I had tried various other remedies including renaming softwaredistribution and all that. The update failed to install at least 10 times so this was an easy and welcome resolution. Thank you E for Excel