Basically, people
If you tried everything and it didn't work, leave as it is for a month (pause/schedule the updates)
The succeeding updates usually get the problem fixed
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"We couldn’t complete the updates. Undoing changes. Don’t turn off your computer"
Will somene EVER give a final solution for this problem !?
DONE
DONE
DONE
DONE
DONE
DONE
All the scans with NO ERRORS
What now ?
Dont tell me to create a new user or install windows over, because I'm TIRED of doing that EVERYTIME windows decides do break !
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Basically, people
If you tried everything and it didn't work, leave as it is for a month (pause/schedule the updates)
The succeeding updates usually get the problem fixed
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1-Restart the computer and continue pressing the F8 or Shift + F8 key; the advanced boot screen will open in front of you.
2- Now select "Choose an option" and choose the "Solve problems" option, then go to "Advanced options" and press the number corresponding to Safe mode.
3- After booting the system in safe mode, open the command prompt and run these commands
net stop wuauserv
4- Now you need to go to a mass distribution and delete your content. Go to the next path to find a mass distribution.
C: Windows SoftwareDistribution
Delete all files and subfolders in this folder.
Now restart your computer and the updates could not be completed. Undo changes, do not turn off the computer in Windows 10 will be fixed.
Try the steps above in safe mode.
If it doesn't work, try the solutions below:
If you have an antivirus installed or more than one, I suggest you uninstall it through the Control Panel under the Programs and Features icon or temporarily disable it through the antivirus settings itself.
Note: Many antiviruses have their own removal tool. Visit the Installed Software website for more information. Your system will not be left unprotected because Windows has its own security system that automatically enables it as soon as you restart your computer.
Perform troubleshooting:
1- Go to search, type in troubleshooting and open troubleshooting.
2- Select Show all in the left panel.
3- Open Windows Update and follow further instructions.
4- Restart your computer and try to install the update again.
Hide Windows update
1- Open the Control Panel and click the Windows Update icon.
2- After Windows updates or you check for updates, click link ... update (s) is available.
3- Right-click on a listed Windows Update that you want to hide, then click Hide Update.
4- If prompted by UAC, then click Yes or enter the administrator password.
5- You will now notice that the Windows Update eyepiece is grayed out. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to hide another Windows Update. When finished, click / tap OK.
I await news.
No luck. A long time downloading and installing 21H2, and on the second reboot, 'could not install' and 'undoing changes'.
KB5007186 was the last update successfully (and automatically) installed on November 15.
After seven months of this thread, does anyone know if Microsoft actually has any information on this problem?
Try this:
manually update to the very latest Windows 10 version (directly to version 21H2)
^For me that issue didn't came. I pressed that button and patiently waited. Now I have 21H2 on my machine.
Perhaps do it exactly like I did: try to install 21H2 not from your normal Windows user account but from what is known as the built-in Administrator account. If you guys are using "pro" version of windows then this Administrator account already exists and is visible and listed among the users and all you have to do is login. But if it is the "Home" version of Windows you have (very likely the case if your current window came pre-installed when you privately bought your machine for personal use) then in that case this built-in Administrator account is dormant and not turned on by default and therefore not visible in your list of users. But it is there. You just have to first turn that on in settings/control panel or via powershell (unless you are like me and have that thing already turned on and available at some point previously, from which is where I just updated my machine into 21H2, and not from my normal day to day user account (never mind that this user account also has administrator privileges, don't forget this is the strange quirky world of Microsoft). And careful I'm not talking about creating a new account and naming it "Administrator" but rather activating an account that is already there hidden and disabled in your pc and already has "Administrator" as username, which is why it's referred to as "built in". It used to be not hidden in Windows 7 but I digress. Once you have fired that up, login to it and from there try to go to the microsoft.com link and try manually updating your machine to version 21H2 then after that's finished go back to login with your normal user account. See if that works for you guys. Just one more trick you could try. We have to help each other cos Microsoft has abandoned us and "left us to our own devices" as the expression goes.... except in our case it's not an expression but literal.
After months of trying to update through Windows 10 Updater..and always failing, I successfully updated to 21H2 by going directly to Microsoft's web-site and entering "Windows 10 21H2 Download" . I downloaded the file and installed. It took nearly 1 hour of the computer automatically rebooting, but finally everything updated.