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
    2021-08-31T16:07:50+00:00

    Access is denied after typing "ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.bak" This is pissing me off. I don't know what kind of problem Windows Update is giving me, just an empty page with something went wrong and nothing else. Nothing I do is getting it to work properly and wondering is it gonna be worth it downloading Win 11 upgrade.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-28T10:13:06+00:00

    everytime when I put in this command in cmd it say access denied help please :

    ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.bak

    It's easy. when you type all the "net stop" commands, you also wanna type

    net stop cryptSvc

    and

    net stop msiserver

    this should allow you to rename the catroot folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-18T14:13:32+00:00

    THANK YOU THIS THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE FIX THIS PROBLEM!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-17T01:18:38+00:00

    The third-party tool proposed by @PrecastClockDJCami works

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-14T04:36:29+00:00

    Aye, consider it done mate

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