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I am running Windows 10 21h2. I updated it manually through the settings. But still in winver, I still see 21h2. How do I update to 22h2?
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While I was checking for new updates for Windows after I did a clean install via Boot Camp, I noticed this strange update that will seemingly pop-up on the downloads list, but would not download or install for some reason. It is a "2021-03 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 20H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5001649)" and after a few attempt of installing it, it just ends up with the stop code as shown in the photo (apparently a failed update error). Doing a research of that particular KB, or any of the latest current available Windows update proved nothing, as this update somehow "does not exist yet". No malware alerts so far from Kaspersky, so it isn't one; but it just wouldn't go away from the update screen. Kinda annoying, like Microsoft's teasing or something. Maybe someone here has the same conundrum, just lemme know. UPDATE: So apparently it is a patch that removes Adobe Flash Player permanently from the system, along with a fix related to BSODs while printing on 20H2 systems. "Once installed, it cannot be removed." As of this edit, the update still refuses to push through in Windows Updates in Settings. While I haven't experienced that issue while using my Canon printer at home, I might just install it anyway for the Flash Player removal. I will keep this thead open should any issue pop up regarding this update until futher notice. Thanks everyone! Link: March 18, 2021—KB5001649 (OS Builds 19041.870 and 19042.870) Out-of-band (microsoft.com)
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Basically I'm currently on 1709 with updates paused. I'm hearing tons of people complain about update 1803 and that for am graphics users like me it forces us to update to newer drivers which is an issue for me. If all of this I've heard is true how would I go about disabling updates or is there no way to do this
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Hello everyone! I'm currently on an activated copy of Windows 10 2004 and I'm having a lot of network and connectivity issues across the OS in general. Here's a list of issues I'm having and my troubleshooting steps: Initially, I noticed my Windows Store apps were showing the following error whenever I tried to download or update anything: 0x80D02017 I am able to browse the store just fine, but I am unable to download any apps or update any pre-installed apps. Note that I did use the "Change where new apps are saved" setting to my external HDD, however even switching this back to a local drive has no effect To fix this, I tried the commonly working solution by turning off iPv6 options in the Internet adapter options, but this had no effect. I tried the common Windows Defender Firewall exceptions and Services.msc restarts, but this didn't help either I tried to use the sfc /scannow and various netsh commands, but this had no effect I tried using Wi-Fi instead of Ethernet but this had no effect In the end, out of frustration of not being able to utilize my Game Pass subscription, I decided to Reset Windows using the Local Install while Keeping my Files, but this created even more problems Upon resetting my Windows 10, I noticed various new errors come up with third-party apps and Windows Update: The reset had no effect on the Windows Store app error I noticed that Windows Update had the following error code whenever I tried updating to 20H2 update or even my Mixed Reality XR updates: 0x80d05001 I installed the Steam client and cannot even get past the 'Checking for updates' screen on the first boot anymore, as I get the following error: 'Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.' Growing frustrated, I tried to Reset Windows while keeping files and using Cloud Install instead, but it said it could not download Windows and to attempt a local reset instead To circumvent this, I downloaded the refreshwindowstool.exe file only to be told "Connect to the internet to begin" I've begun to notice a common theme across these various issues: Windows seems to think that I am not connected to the internet even though I am posting these issues from the very same computer. I don't want to perform another reset only to have the same issue again, so I am turning to this community for help. I'm on a data cap currently, so I have stopped just short of downloading an .iso copy of Windows and trying a fresh reset. I would appreciate any help that comes my way!
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"Receive updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows" wont stay disabled. I would disable it, only to find it reenabled when I go back to advanced options under the update settings. About the computer: About 2 month old Dell G5 running a windows home edition 2004, currently updated with the 2020-09 cumulative update. Failed remedies: Prior to updating windows, I disabled update apps automatically in the Microsoft store app. Couldn't find a windowsupdate in the registry editor. Even uninstalled all the preinstalled Microsoft office programs excluding OneNote and OneDrive (neither are currently in use). Updated windows to see if any changes and the "option" still kept enabling itself. Please help and thank you in advance. 20201015_154050_1.mp4
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I initially thought of posting this to the Tech News and Reviews Hub but this is more of a commentary from CNET rather than News so I decided to share it here instead. Yes Windows Updates are annoying and obtrusive as fuck. I get that reason for updates is to keep your system secure by patching vulnerabilities and updating Windows Defender signatures but the most annoying thing is that it will force restart your system or won't give you any option but to "Sleep, Shutdown and Update, and Restart and Update". If there's one thing Apple did so well is the way macOS handles updates, it downloads and installs updates and I can just ignore it without being bothered. I think the open source Unix kernel that Apple uses is better than Microsoft's proprietary Windows NT kernel. And screw you Microsoft! As it turns out they have no intentions of fixing the annoying software bug that is Windows Updates. No wonder when I was in college my workflow for school stuff is faster on a Mac than on a PC but not because a PC is slower but there's less annoying stuff that get's in your way on a Mac than on a PC. Fine, a Mac is terrible at gaming but for the common tasks, I'm fine spending extra just to have an uninterrupted workflow. As far as I'm concerned, it's the single worst thing about Windows. It's only gotten worse in Windows 10. And when I poked around Microsoft, the overarching message I received was that Microsoft has no interest in fixing it. How Windows Update sabotaged me at work -- more than once It felt like karma. On September 1, 2010, I sat within speaking distance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, ready to help liveblog his every word. But my Windows laptop -- a Windows laptop in a sea of MacBooks! -- wasn't quite working properly. I figured it just needed a quick reboot, so that's what I did. But because Windows had recently downloaded some updates, my computer decided it would be a good time to install all of them. So I spent the next 15 to 20 minutes internally screaming at my PC while Steve Jobs presented the new iPod Touch. (Yes, it would have been slightly funnier if Jobs had announced new MacBooks.) It was the first of three occasions that a forced Windows update would totally destroy my workflow at a critical moment -- once crippling my computer when I had a hot scoop to share with the world. Then, Windows 10 came along to add insult to injury. Imagine this: With no warning, a prompt pops up on your screen telling you that your Windows 10 laptop is about to restart. Even though you know you're about to lose access to your computer, there's not a damn thing you can do about it -- the buttons are all grayed out. If you're really unlucky and Windows is installing a major update, the progress meter may be a tease: once it reaches 100 percent, your computer might reboot a second or third time before you finally get control again. I've personally seen this -- or something similar --happen five times over the past year. View image on Twitter And it turns out lots of people have stories just like mine. Worldwide Windows tales of woe There's software developer Dylan Beattie, whose laptop decided to shut down while he was giving a talk in front of 200-odd developers in Malmo, Sweden, and found he had to wing the rest of the presentation without his slides. "I wasn't terribly happy," recalls Beattie, adding that he now has a habit of explicitly running Windows Update a few hours before his presentations "just to make sure it's not going to spring any surprises." Alex Gibson, a 3D printing consultant, says he no longer trusts Windows to manage his 3D printer after his computer forced a restart near the end of a 6-hour-long print job for a customer in November. He tells me he's switching to a Raspberry Pi. Lydricsama, a digital artist from Finland, says she lost hours of work on a commissioned piece she was working on late into the night, leaving her with a bare sketch (instead of a mostly lined and colored illustration) after her machine forced an update back in October. She tells me that while it was her fault for not saving the document more often, Windows also didn't help: "I had no prior warning before it restarted itself." Luckily, her client didn't mind the delay. Mark Switzer, who goes by the handle Preheat when he plays World of Warcraft, also had his machine restart at a particularly inconvenient time last month. He was in the middle of beating the game's final boss in front of a live Twitch audience. He says he lost most of his viewers that day, a little bit of money (he's an official Twitch partner), and his in-game reward for beating the boss. "Overall it wasn't a huge deal, just very frustrating to have your computer decide these things on its own," he tells me. Alexsander Stukov, an software engineer who spends days running stress tests and cloning virtual machines, says he's lost hours of work to forced Windows Updates on five separate occasions now. "Windows Update is a terrible piece of software," he tells me, but says he has no other choice: "Our customers use it, and we have to test our software on the same environment." View image on Twitter Then there's Alexandria Seabrook, who says she couldn't complete the online test for a college course this October because of Windows 10 updates -- and whose professor wasn't quite as forgiving as Gibson's and Lyricsama's customers. Busy with midterms, she waited until nearly the last minute before flipping open her Windows 10 computer -- only to watch Windows Update take control of her machine until well after the deadline had passed. "It was only 20 questions. I could have finished the test on time if it wasn't for the Windows Update," she tells me. She got a 58 on the midterm, and was barely able to bring it up to a C by the end of the semester. "I don't like [Windows], but I'm a college student," she says. "I'm stuck with this laptop literally until it breaks down because I have no money." View image on Twitter When I ask my fellow CNET staffers, many of them chime in with stories, too: how Windows decided to reboot in the middle of a liveblog, or an expense report, or while taking notes in the middle of an interview -- or in the airport, right before boarding a plane, without enough power left to actually finish the install. Once, Windows 8 even force-updated CNET editor Stephen Shankland's machine when he was in the middle of a Skype interview with NPR. Microsoft's response I know what you're thinking: "How many times do you have to get burned before you get a Mac?" Or maybe a Chromebook. Or even an iPad with a keyboard cover -- anything but a Windows machine that can just spontaneously restart while you're in the middle of mission-critical work. That's pretty much the direction I've been leaning in recent months. And after hinting there might be a MacBook purchase in my immediate future, I asked a Microsoft spokesperson if the company was doing anything about forced updates. Here's the statement I got: In other words, Microsoft thinks it's super important that you get the updates. "Auto-restarts" are a feature, not a bug. In fact, Microsoft has been actively getting rid of ways to keep users from disabling automatic updates: in Windows 10 Pro and above, you used to be able to do that from the Group Policy tool. As of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, though, that option is gone. (You can still schedule a restart, but it involves doing a lot of work to change the annoying "ready or not, here it comes" default.) And while the next version of Windows will let you stave off updates for a 35-day period (if you paid extra for a Pro, Enterprise or Education-grade copy of Windows, which sounds like a moderate form of blackmail), my understanding is that even those versions won't let you cancel an update that's already been delayed and is now about to occur. In other words: you'll be helplessly watching your computer turn itself off, just the same as usual. Spontaneous Windows Updates are basically free ads for Apple Don't get me wrong: I appreciate that these updates can help keep my PC secure. It's a heck of a lot better to have Microsoft patching holes in my computer's software instead of having to deal with damage after the fact with third-party antivirus software. (Particularly because the likes of Symantec and McAfee tend to bog down computers.) And I'm not an anti-vaxxer: I understand that by patching my PC, I'm helping to keep it from spreading malware to other computers, too. But I think the company has overcorrected with these forced updates. We should be able to decide when to get our vaccines -- not have the doctor walk into our house, grab us by the hair and shove the medicine down our throats. View image on Twitter I think it's time we send Microsoft a message that this isn't okay -- that the computers we bought and paid for with our hard-earned dollars are ours to use whenever we want, not just when Microsoft says so. I need a reliable PC, a computer that's ready for action whenever I need to report on a story, jot down notes from an interview, or liveblog a keynote. Share this story if you feel the same. There's got to be a better way of handling these updates. Perhaps by automatically installing them when a PC and its owner are both asleep? That's what college freshman Alexandria Seabrook suggested, right after she told me how furious she was with her Windows machine. Or maybe Microsoft could take a page out of the Apple and Android playbooks and let users decide when to update. I generally like Windows. But if I can't find a Windows PC that's always ready for work, my next computer will be a Mac.
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Hello everyone! I want to play GTA 5 but i cant because it says mfreadwrite.dll missing so i googled that like every other smart person and i found a few fixes. First thing i did was reinstall the game (duuh...) but then that didn't work so i downloaded everything from these Microsoft sites: - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53356 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49919 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53356 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4016817/media-feature-pack-for-n-edition-of-windows-10-version-1703-april-2017 And none of them worked, for the x64 version it said i already have it installed on my pc but for the x86 version (https://prnt.sc/fgjbmz) it popped up as this https://prnt.sc/fgjbt6 !!! So my problem right now is why the heck does it say its not applicable to my computer? And i also cant find windows media player 12 to download either!
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I installed the latest w10 update on february the 14th, and since then my desktop pc has stopped connecting to the internet via ethernet. Also my w7 laptop doesn't work in the same way. At first i thought it was the modem's problem so i got it replaced but it didn't change a thing. Every other device in the house works normally with wifi (ps3, samsung s8 and tab 2). I tried uninstalling a couple of updates from friday night but it was ineffective.
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Hi LTT forum people! When I try to update from Win10 1903 to 1909 I've got the 0x80073701 error by Windows Update. On Google I didn't find nothing that helped me. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Hello everyone, my windows tried to update itself for the last few times and it didn't manage to do so(It said something like 'didnt manage to update system, reversing changes'). Any suggestions? Btw SFC scan told that everything is in order Thanks, @NFSU
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I've had this problem for a while, still dont know how to fix it. I tried everything they said, nothing worked. I didn't really care at first when I saw svchost.exe using about 1.5 gigs of ram but later on when it went up to 2.2GB I had to do something about it. I tried many different things but none of them worked. I had Windows Update disabled for a few months yet I still see the wuauserv running on svchost, I disabled it from anywhere I can on the computer but it seems I just can't get rid of it. When I stop wuauserv using Procexp it stops, but next time I reboot the computer it comes back of course. I also tried a few things with BITS, nothing seem to have effected it. Is there possibly a way to get rid of wuauserv permanently? I tried Anti-Malware and Anti-Virus scans, all clear. Im sorry, In the picture everything is in Turkish but It should do the job, If you need an English one please just tell me. I need help Win 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 Asus M5A78L-MX3 8Gigs of Kingston idfk Amd FX6300BE
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Anyone know what KB3103709 is? It an update for Windows Server 2012 so far (Edit - march 27th) searching Micosoft, Microsoft support, Bing and Google have nothing. So i finally found a post on the microsoft community forums that has the details. Looks like it just took them a month to post the KB. Details: