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Hi, can someone please help before I get rid of windows 8? After still no joy of windows updating properly (another unsolved thread)........ now suddenly my desktop icons will not hide! If I right click to go to view menu..... black screen, nothing can be done - restart and impossible to...

Hi, Before I do anything further, the DISM command has been actioned and I attach the result - does this mean that I reboot and then try and download updates again? any recommendations would be welcome..... many thanks Steve

I get a message to the effect "use an elevated command" can you give an idiot guide please - sorry this is over my head this thing :cry: many thanks Steve

Thank you very much, will have a go tomorrow when its peaceful! Will leave a reply here on its success....... do you recommend in downloading the updates are a reboot? What's the best way forward? Thank you

Hi Saltgrass, many thanks for your advice....... can you please advise me as I have no idea what you are suggesting I try? I would be most grateful :eek:

Fair comment...... will try your suggestion again and see what happens..... we shall see what happens with 8.1 eventually :sarc: many thanks :dinesh:

can any wonderful person please advise any further on this update scandal........ still have this problem, still doing my head in, is there a microsoft phone number I can ring to discuss this ridiculous problem. I have checked everything I can and still it will not install the updates it...

I have run this and according to cmd window there is nowt wrong - is this correct? thank you

Hi, many thanks for continued help.... I attach what took place from the cmd prompt admin, and got nowhere....... now its been many years since practising DOS so please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Hi, This is the view of my latest windows update requirements....... is it possible that only a couple may be stopping the updates installing? Do I really need all of these for windows 8 PRO? Why would I need anything to do with a server or suchlike? Thank you knowledgeable people :D

again this morning failed updates and its ridiculous, never had this problem before HELP! complex stuff for an idiot thank you so far..... Steve

I have no idea to be honest, never had a problem like this since using a pc - bring back windows 3.1 !! So if you have any ideas as to why - wonderful! many thanks Steve

Hi, if this is wrong please can some kind person move this to where it should be please.. I recently over this last week upgraded to windows 8 PRO from win 7 Ultimate....... all went fine until the pc tried to update windows... it has 51 critical or important updates to do and it will fail...