Cumulative updates - February 11th 2020

This concerns the upgrade of an HP Stream13. We have had the same problem every single time there is a major upgrade. NOT ENOUGH ROOM!  I provide a clean USB memory stick and uninstall software I really need to keep after the usual Disk C:\ clean-up. Still declared insufficient space after hours of locked out trying.

This is a fast fibre line so that cannot be the reason for the long lock out.

So I disable (reduce to almost zero (200Mb) the virtual RAM and resume. I have no further ideas on making more space. Disk drive C:\ is now all YOURS!

There is another long lock-out but still not complete. There must surely be thousands of others with limited memory space so affected. Where would you have me turn to? The loss of access finds me on another Laptop to be making this input. Tellingly this one has a Linux based OS since the owner long since gave up on Windows. You really cannot blame anyone for that.

The point here is that I need help and guidance from both MS & HP to facilitate this upgrade. I truly believe compensation is due for the lost time and effort having to be made by me. That would surely sharpen your wits in dealing with this matter.

Please now point me at the best procedure to adopt for my machine.

In anticipation I thank you.

Berry Greene in UK

In relation to fixing the temporary profile issue after installing KB4532693, three out of four computers in the household did not have any issues but the fourth was affected after updating, found that the user profile that was being used to install the update (my own admin user account) was the only one with the profile issue and not the other two (also admin) accounts that were on the computer as those profiles seemed unaffected by the update.

Tried booting into safe mode, leaving safe mode and trying a few restarts etc which did not seem to work but after removing the KB4532693 update had found my user profile was back to what it should be.

In the end I managed to install the update without any issues and with no broken user profiles by creating a new user administrative local only account and installed the update from there by downloading the update from the Microsoft update catalog.

Note: this might work using windows update from that account too but did not try this as I had paused windows update to prevent the update reinstalling by itself.

The new user account that was created just to install the KB4532693 update also did not appear to have any profile issues afterwards.

The steps I took:

1. Uninstalled KB4532693 with the broken profile account, paused windows updates
2. Restarted
3. Created a new user administrative local only account just for installing the update - I named it "updatetemp"
4. Logged in to the newly created user account, installed KB4532693 downloaded from the update catalog
5. Restarted
6. Signed back into my own user account with no issues.

Hope this helps

  When there was a safety recall, or product upgrade to my Tahoe, when I got it home I don't have to get under the hood and take something off, then reinstall it myself. I have never had to buy a third party anything to make it run properly, or safely.

  Again it is the same thing with MS and what I perceive as their ongoing (I can only assume, is intentional) incompetence.

  One has to wonder why, with the arrival of the quad core CPUs and all that bandwidth, they didn't write a rock solid operating system. Instead they rewrote (again, WIN3,WIN3.1, XP, VISTA, WIN7, WIN8, WIN8.1, WIN10) an already week, easily manipulated program.

Rebooting reset it back to pre update but a couple days later onedrive disappeared.  Then quickbooks had an update and same thing happened when i attempted to update.  Fixed the onedrive issue again.  As it is a windows 7 computer that was upgraded we decided to buy a new computer and use the old one as a backup.

Hi, I was trying to install docker hyper-v today and I noticed that whenever I attempted to enable the hyper-v feature it gave me this error: x80073701

Coincidentally, whenever I try to install this cumulative update  (KB4532693), it installs up to 100% and then fails and give me the same error code (x80073701). Among all the other problems that this update has apparently caused for other users I won't be able to experience because this cumulative update will not install, not only that but also it won't allow me to add any features such as hyper-v, because it's stuck. What happens when there's an important security update, will that fail too? I currently have windows 10 pro edition (recently upgraded from home -> education -> pro) and it's incredibly frustrating that this has blocked me from installing docker hyper-v. Please tell me what I need to do, I've tried a few generic fixes from searching "cumulative update will not install" on Google and none have worked for me so far.

Thanks

No.  One machine had Kaspersky and the other had McAfee