Others' ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/192l9kj/cumulative_updates_january_9th_2024/kh32u6f/ ) and my updated 64-bit W10 Pro. PCs, I'm getting "Status: Download error - 0x80070643" with "2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro. right now. I already rebooted once from other today's updates: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-9-2024-kb5034275-cumulative-update-for-net-framework-3-5-4-8-and-4-8-1-for-windows-10-version-22h2-6c9a603c-f0a1-4b32-b7fa-a1c6337523f1 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-9-2024-kb5034122-os-builds-19044-3930-and-19045-3930-7656c6a4-0b06-4424-86a9-d0719f4ac252 I read https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5034441-windows-recovery-environment-update-for-windows-10-version-21h2-and-22h2-january-9-2024-62c04204-aaa5-4fee-a02a-2fdea17075a8 's known issue about small WinRE partition with a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf link. Couldn't MS do this to its users automatically without having to do it manually for non-technical users? :/

Windows Update KB5034441 is a security update to the WinRe environment, but people are running into problems trying to get it downloaded and installed. KB5028997 tells how to resize your recovery partition so that this update can be installed, but it applies only to Windows 11 computers. I am in the same boat as John Dow 987654 and ULtraGreG. I need a workaround that applies to Windows 10 computers, if there is one. I have Windows 10 which I understand is supported thru 2024. Like the others, I need a simple (NOVICE) solution to this problem update (KB5034441). Please advise for those of us that are not "Tekies", and don't have administrator's access! Looking forward to Microsoft assistance with this security problem caused by the original Microsoft security designers who created this risk in the first place by ignoring the possibility of the risk this update is attempting to mitigate.

Leave this for Microsoft to solve. This update is failing in multiple systems for no apparent reason. I myself even did a clean reinstall of Windows 10 22H2 in 64bit and it did not solve the installation error. And also, messing with stuff you don't know only raises the odds of worsening the problem.

The update is still in my Windows Updates and still trying to download with errors.

And the impossible update is ttill there - NOT withdrawn...

Hey Ant Dude I made a reply in my post https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/kb5034441-will-not-install/56645a57-38a1-43fc-9aa6-82b1dad4a8d2 about this to come and take a look at your post also. I tried doing those commands and it got very murky for me and I had to back out of it. I have a SDD and a hard disk. I am not going to do this with those kind of instructions especially when it comes to boot config. Don

"2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro.

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Others' (https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/192l9kj/cumulative_updates_january_9th_2024/kh32u6f/) and my updated 64-bit W10 Pro. PCs, I'm getting "Status: Download error - 0x80070643" with "2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro. right now. I already rebooted once from other today's updates:

I read https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5034441-windows-recovery-environment-update-for-windows-10-version-21h2-and-22h2-january-9-2024-62c04204-aaa5-4fee-a02a-2fdea17075a8's known issue about small WinRE partition with a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf link. Couldn't MS do this to its users automatically without having to do it manually for non-technical users? :/

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2024-01-10T06:08:10+00:00

Windows Update KB5034441 is a security update to the WinRe environment, but people are running into problems trying to get it downloaded and installed. KB5028997 tells how to resize your recovery partition so that this update can be installed, but it applies only to Windows 11 computers. I am in the same boat as John Dow 987654 and ULtraGreG. I need a workaround that applies to Windows 10 computers, if there is one.

I have Windows 10 which I understand is supported thru 2024. Like the others, I need a simple (NOVICE) solution to this problem update (KB5034441).

Please advise for those of us that are not "Tekies", and don't have administrator's access! Looking forward to Microsoft assistance with this security problem caused by the original Microsoft security designers who created this risk in the first place by ignoring the possibility of the risk this update is attempting to mitigate.
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2024-01-12T02:36:17+00:00

Leave this for Microsoft to solve. This update is failing in multiple systems for no apparent reason. I myself even did a clean reinstall of Windows 10 22H2 in 64bit and it did not solve the installation error. And also, messing with stuff you don't know only raises the odds of worsening the problem.
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2024-01-12T21:13:27+00:00

The update is still in my Windows Updates and still trying to download with errors.
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2024-01-10T04:41:21+00:00

And the impossible update is ttill there - NOT withdrawn...
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2024-01-09T23:28:20+00:00

Hey Ant Dude I made a reply in my post https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/kb5034441-will-not-install/56645a57-38a1-43fc-9aa6-82b1dad4a8d2 about this to come and take a look at your post also. I tried doing those commands and it got very murky for me and I had to back out of it. I have a SDD and a hard disk. I am not going to do this with those kind of instructions especially when it comes to boot config.

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