Windows 10 22H2, KB5016616, KB5017308, KB5017380, KB5018410, KB5019959, KB5021233 hang on reboot after install

Anonymous
2022-08-11T22:19:21+00:00

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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Anonymous
2022-12-26T20:47:58+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-11-19T14:19:27+00:00

    Isn't a solution that just a new clean install, not a update :-(

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-19T15:38:01+00:00

    Great - good luck Mark B

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-11-19T20:24:06+00:00

    Installing 22H2 as a Feature Update from WU does not work; just ends up in the old swirly dot limbo.

    And installing 22H2 from a USB stick copy of the .ISO also ends up in the old swirly dot limbo.

    Sorry guys, the only way that works so far is the clean install and then reinstall of all your software and data. Not good if you've made a big investment in money and/or time with your software.

    Microsoft - Look at me! I need fixing!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-19T21:20:53+00:00

    Thanks, Mark.

    Very useful - although that's the last lifeboat sunk - at least we know about the holes before jumping in it!

    And yes, you are right - clean install seems only way out. So glad now I did it weeks ago, having wasted many hours of failed attempts to reinstall etc.

    Clean install a major pain - but less stress if you think it through thoroughly ahead of time. Save copies of all your User folder, any application folders direct in C: (older software often used to use such for data and/or settings etc.), & your Desktop. Make sure you have license data for all your software, and so on before you Go.

    Critically your W10 license number of course. Old W7 ones remain valid, at least on same PC (as opposed to HDD). Although at my previous generation change, did get help from MS, who agreed to transfer license from previous 2009 XP/W7/W10 PC to new one 2020 bought with test version of W10 installed, given that I was not going to use the old one post completion of the new.

    And, as I said above, safest and most rewarding to install a fresh drive, clean as a whistle, no old junk files, deleted data etc. fragmented all over the place and so on. probably faster than your old one, and all your C: is available for fragments you may need,via either internal on a desktop or a USB carrier for a laptop drive.

    NB Outlook a likely major pain - use Outlook itself to copy all your mail data, folders etc to a new Personal Folder which will have its own .pst file you can save and feed back in. Outlook is much pickier than it used to be about file locations for accounts etc.. Make a separate record of any Rules used in Outlook.

    Good luck all.

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