Posted on 07/31/2024 12:46:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
My wife's Windows 11 laptop is in an infinite loop trying to install an update that fails to install then immediately tries to install it again. This slows the laptop of so much that it is unusable.
Below is a screenshot of the update screen displaying the offending optional update.
I have searched and searched the Interwebs to find out how to make an update stop trying to install but have had no luck.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Getting a Chromebook completely eliminated the problem for me.
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Two years on with my Chromebook. No viruses and easy painless updates.
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Thanks Red Badger for the ping!
Good advice!
Here is the Microslop page for manually updating the offending update:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=11%2023h2
Top of the list. It appears to be a real big boy - almost a gigabyte.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure if the laptop’s response time will allow you to try that option.
Thanks.
I love these threads so much. There is a simple solution to this problem.
Open a command prompt as administrator (right click the start button and select terminal admin)
Type:
SFC /scannow
Let it run. Reboot when complete and try the update. This is a system file checker that MIGHT fix the problem.
thanks.
Alternatively try the Windows Update troubleshooter
I have been trying to find it. I can find the windows update troubleshooter settings, but haven’t found where you can actually run it.
Not if your wife has embroidery software that only runs on windows.
Lufkin’s Law: Never use a computer too big to throw out of a window.
Lufkin’s Corollary: Never use a computer in a room without a window.
Run Windows 11 Update Troubleshooter to Fix Update Issues
https://www.minitool.com/news/windows-11-update-troubleshooter.html
Task Manager. Kill the update.
I found that, but it’s not an official Microsoft tool and I am not about to download and run anything that could easily contain malware or be malware.
It just starts up again in a day or two. I need for it to just go away from the update list. It is a preview update. Maybe when the official update comes out it will go away.
I've got one. Cost around $1k, iirc. After using Windows exclusively since I was 5 years old, I couldn't get used to it and it just sits there like a paperweight except I don't have much paper.
If it's just for an embroidery app, figure out what you need to run it, and buy another computer. Windows.
And be thankful with embroidery you never have to print anything.
A Mac mini with an M2 chip can be had for $499.00 on Amazon.
I need it to run Xcode, and it will be a business deduction.
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Desktop-Computer-10%E2%80%91core-Ethernet/dp/B0BSHGHGXR
Had to just turn mine off the other day to make it stop. A tech said to let it keep looping, huh, no!
It originally got stuck on an update. Tried a restore to earlier date but that got hung in a loop as well.
I use Stop Updates 10 to turn off updates. Maybe they have a version for W11 as well.
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