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I'm trying to update to the latest Win10 update released on 8/8/22. Ever since that update was downloaded the machine hangs
on the required reboot after the install. I have disabled updates until I can find a fix. I've tried to download the update and install
manually but get the same results. Other updates, such as .NET, download and installed fine. Once the machine hangs it has to be rebooted
2 times to get to the automatic roll back. At least that works for now. I've run the Update trouble shooter and it doesn't fix anything.
Windows Update and BITS services are both set to automatic.
There is an error in the event log but I think its from the install abort from a forced shutdown.
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x800F0845: 2022-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5016616).
Update 10/5/22: KB-5017308, KB5017380, KB5018410 also FAIL in exactly the same manner as KB-5016616. Spinning dots on the reboot and the need to do a dual boot auto recovery. Title has been updated.
Any help would be appreciated.
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For me, the following solved the Problem:
Delete the Value data (all bytes) of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets\NL$KM\CurrVal(Default)
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets\NL$KM\OldVal(Default)
One reboot and CurrVal(Default) should be filled again.
If you are not domain-joined, i would not expect any problems.
I'm not giving directions on how to access and delete the value data because i want skilled people who know what they are doing to test my solution.
I wonder if M$ won't fix this because is a Win 10 issue and Win 11 is out. Unfortunately from what I read here Win 11 also has same problem.
And now this just showed up
At the place I work, we have had many customers over the last few months with this same issue. We have been using the feedback hub in Windows to report the issue from each PC we have worked on so that hopefully someone at Microsoft is seeing this issue being reported and that it is occurring on various hardware old and new. As was already mentioned, it doesn't appear to be hardware related as we also cloned an SSD to a new computer, removed all the old drivers and installed the new drivers for the new PC and it didn't help. Since it was a clone we tried uninstalling all programs until we were left with only Windows 10 and the update would still hang on reboot. So it doesn't seem any piece of software on this person's PC was to blame either. These are customers from dental, oil, architect companies that all had different setups and software. We just continue to hide updates for them each month since none of them want to do a clean install of Windows and have to reload all their software.
Also with these places being businesses, they bought multiple computers of the same exact model for their employees and they all run the same software, but not all of the computers have this issue. Only some computers at each company do.
Does M$ even know about this issue?
I want to upgrade my Windows 10 to newer version
