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I've tried the Windows Troubleshooter, and I disabled Malwarebytes (I primarily use Windows Defender, so I didn't need it running as well), and I've tried restarting a couple times.
But the following two updates refuse to install, and I keep receiving error code 0x80070020 for:
What do I need to do, to get these updates to install?
I'm running Windows 11 Home (version 22H2).
Not sure if it's extraneous info but my processor is a 12th Gen Intel i7, with 32GB of RAM.
Many thanks,
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Unfortunately, both methods have not worked.
I tried using the SFC tool--it did fix some corrupt files--but no luck getting the updates to install.
Then I tried doing the repair upgrade, but both attempts resulted in a message saying Windows 11 failed to install or something to that order (I forget the exact wording).
At this point, I'm assuming it's an issue with the update itself--so maybe a future patch produced by Microsoft will work better?
Thank you but I don't think that is the issue for me. I already have Windows 11 up through all the prior updates to the 2024-1. In reviewing online, it appears that there is an issue with the actual package that was rolled out. I'm waiting for them to roll out a corrected package. There are literally hundreds of online threads about this update not working. Originally they thought it was because of one issue - and Microsoft sent out instructions yesterday for how to fix that is so complicated even developers had a fit about it. It was requiring customers to go into settings they should not touch unless they have a LOT of experience and have totally backed up their system. After that caused such a ruckus with experienced developers, it appears Microsoft has backed up and gone silent on this update. Thank you so much for looking into this and I'm glad that this problem was resolved for you! So far I haven't seen anything from Microsoft that says the 23 update is the fix. Now that they have ended up with folks getting partial updates with the failed package, the problem has become more complicated. Again - glad this worked for you but I'm going to wait until I see some more input from the developer community because I've already spent hours trying to roll back and get my computer working again. I'm still having issues with lag which means there is no doubt some underlying piece of c**p code that has lingered from the failed install. :-(
I have found the solution, I also had this problem and what I discovered was that we were supposed to get an update to Windows 11 23H2, but it never got rolled out so when the 2024 update came out it was looking for Windows 11 23H2 so when it couldn't find it, it spat out an error.
This is actually a very common issue, and I am going to help everyone I can with this.
Follow these steps:
If you want a video, you can watch this official video from Microsoft: How to perform a Windows 11 In-place upgrade | Microsoft - YouTube
I'm having the same issue with regard to the update failing.
I have the same issue and have run the troubleshooter and retried multiple times - turned off all virus protection (shutting them down completely - not just a soft turn off). Still fails with same error of "0x800f081f". The solution presented below does not appear to be related to this issue although I tried it anyway. Does anyone else have this issue?
