Windows 10 Update (Something went wrong. Try to reopen settings later)

Anonymous
2020-07-07T10:31:57+00:00

* Mod note on 16 October 2021.

A third-party tool to block all updates to Windows 10 is mentioned several times in this thread. Links to this tool have been removed because Microsoft policy is that one cannot post here any method of permanently stopping/blocking updates to Windows.

Everytime i enter windows update i cant see nothing in Windows Update tab, only "Something went wrong. Try to reopen settings later" .

3 days have went by of me trying to fix this, but nothing is working...

The troubleshoot shows nothing wrong...

Tried to reset the pc but i got an error (something went wrong)...

When i try to scan the disk it always gives me an error

Did sfc /scandisk in safe mode there was no problem

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T11:52:59+00:00

    theres a "medic" service that's running along with "windows10update service, 1 is blocking the other, this software resolves it.....there is NO adware etc, its the only thing that resolved the problem....i'm an advanced user and it took me a looooong time to get this resolved......a week is too long !!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T11:50:27+00:00

    <link removed>    be quick before they take it down

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T11:38:29+00:00

    it wont fix, there's a service running that MS have put on there themselves, it's the service that won't let you manually restart wupdate service, it doesn't matter what you do, it will not restart, even a system restart/rollback doesn't work, i was stuck with it for a week, in the end i had a look around, i found a site that addresses this, they have supplied a small piece of software that actually stops that service which will then allow you to update.....difficult to give u a link here, they'll take it down, i'll try and find it and post a direction to where you need to go, it was the only thing i found that fixed the problem, nothing MS suggests fixes it

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T11:27:30+00:00

    Just Run CMD as Administrator. This might fix.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T21:07:24+00:00

    download a small piece of software called "autoruns"     windows update has been disabled and won't update, also it won't let you restart the services either, autoruns will reenable so you can update, it's the link that has been removed previously, the link was there when i had the same problem, was the update about a month ago that did it, that program is safe and it works, hope this helps

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