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I have a Dell XPS 7100 with AMD hex core 1075T and 8GB ram. 500GB SSD & 1TB secondary drive.
I've been running W10 1803 quite happily but the nags from Microsoft are becoming irritating as 1803 nears end of support. I've tried installing 1903 at least a dozen times. I've followed every troubleshooting procedure I can find; I've pulled every peripheral including video card and sound card leaving just the mobo and SSD. Still get the same error "Windows could not configure one or more system components. To install Windows, restart the computer then restart the installation". I've updated all my drivers and BIOS.
I have run an install in place. I have not run a clean install because losing my (old) applications would be a disaster. Some of them (like Picasa) even if I could reinstall would lose much valuable information.
I know this PC is not "certified" for W10 so I'd be quite happy to stay with 1803. Is there a way to tell Microsoft to stop bugging me about the update? A total wipeout because of a future security breach would be no worse than having to do a clean install.
If that's not possible I'd sure like to know what's the problem. I created a Windows Update log and it's in my dropbox here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qx7afofdm9jgpgk/WindowsUpdate.log?dl=0
I would sure appreciate any help.
Thanks, Joe
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Getting your system to upgrade was really good work. Not many folks would stay with such a problem and find a resolution.
I suppose you are now the resident expert on this situation. Hopefully, you will be able to mark the thread solved if you do get 1903 to work so other folks will find it.
Sometimes those errors aren't accurate and I don't know why uninstalling IIS would cause such a problem. Do you see anything related to IIS which is running, such as some service?
Have you ever run IIS and if so, when or how long ago?
If you can't find anything, we may need to get a utility which will show everything starting up on your system, like the Task Manager does on the Startup tab, but more inclusive.
I couldn't bear to wait any longer so I pushed the power button on my PC and it came back up.
After the 1809 download, I restarted the PC and attempted to disable IIs. Exactly the same error code. I searched Microsoft for that code and I found one reference to recovery partition too small. My partition was 6.78GB with 130MB free. I decided to take another 5GB from my C: partition and now my partition wizard seems to have stalled. ARRRRGH! Maybe it will come back.
It is too bad you have to download it again, I usually keep a copy of the prior build on a Flash drive so I have it just in case.
After the Windows Features gave you the error, did you reboot or even shutdown your system to see if it would clear? If you can't do it right now, let us know later. I am wondering if all three of these systems are Legacy systems, something may have gotten stuck from a prior install.
