Windows 10 won't install updates.

[pR1zm]

I am having trouble installing Windows updates on my laptop. A little bit of backstory, I noticed in task manager that this process "Windows Modules Installer" was eating up about 30% CPU usage. I assumed it was Windows updating, but when I went into the update settings nothing was downloading or installing. It had been about 10 minutes and my CPU usage was not dropping so I became concerned and researched what to do about this problem. This had been a problem before where this process was eating up CPU usage for no apparent reason.

 

I found that stopping the "Windows Modules Installer" service was a fix to this problem. However ever since stopping that service just once I am having trouble installing updates. I have gone into services and changed the start-up type to automatic, manually started the service and tried to install the updates by "Update and Shut Down." However every time the machine just says "Getting Windows Ready" for a couple of minutes and just shuts down without installing any updates. Oddly enough any time I check the services application the start-up type has changed itself back to manual.

 

My guess is that I must have interrupted some update for Windows when I stopped the service. I just find it strange that when I went into the update settings it said nothing was installing, so I figured it was safe to end it. I have tried start-up repair and that did nothing. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it greatly, I would really like to avoid have to reinstall Windows all together.

 

OS: Windows 10 Home 64bit.

[PokeCatz]

Use http://download.wsusoffline.net/ 

I had exactly the same problem but with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I just ran wsus offline which downloads the files then installs them unlike regular where it's doing both at once. Once I downloaded 6 years worth of Windows updates.I was already set to go with no background usage at all. Search google on how to use it.

[pR1zm]

12 hours ago, PokeCatz said:

Use http://download.wsusoffline.net/ 

I had exactly the same problem but with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I just ran wsus offline which downloads the files then installs them unlike regular where it's doing both at once. Once I downloaded 6 years worth of Windows updates.I was already set to go with no background usage at all. Search google on how to use it.

Tried this. I ran the installer after downloading all the updates, it said it ran successfully. However when I check Windows update settings it still says it has updates to install. Also under update history nothing has changed, and I still have the "Update and Shut Down" option on my PC.

[NumLock21]

latest version is 1607. Might be windows downloading that and it does take some time.

[pR1zm]

5 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

latest version is 1607. Might be windows downloading that and it does take some time.

I discovered this during the afternoon today. I fixed it by downloading the Windows Update Assistant.