moze229
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Update KB3078071 fails
I have the dreaded "Windows cannot complete the update process. Undoing changes." I've tried going to the page where Microsoft has the update fix. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/windows-update-issues/en-us That doesn't help. I've tried searching for answers on Google and here, but I'm not finding any particular error. It just "fails". Looking at the update history provides nothing useful. It just says that the updates failed with a generic error code, so I can't figure out which update is causing the problem. Because of Windows's intelligent update system, this means that NOTHING gets updated because apparently if it fails on one update, Windows removes the failed updates AND all the non-failed updates.
Now that they've all been downloaded to my computer, I can't figure out how to install them one at a time to figure this out. Does anyone else know? If they weren't downloaded yet, I could just do them one at a time. But apparently they are already on my computer somewhere. I need to delete them and install them one at a time.
(Interesting note - I notice that the first fail was a "Windows 10 Home" update back on July 28th. I haven't made my computer eligible for the free upgrade yet, so I'm not sure what that's all about. Then every few days, I'll get the same Windows 10 update error. I'm assuming it's failing because I've elected NOT to install it yet. Those are the only errors until about 3 days ago. Now MOST updates fail, including security and misc. updates, but not all.)
BTW - I tried deleting the software distribution folder to no avail.
I have the dreaded "Windows cannot complete the update process. Undoing changes." I've tried going to the page where Microsoft has the update fix. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/windows-update-issues/en-us That doesn't help. I've tried searching for answers on Google and here, but I'm not finding any particular error. It just "fails". Looking at the update history provides nothing useful. It just says that the updates failed with a generic error code, so I can't figure out which update is causing the problem. Because of Windows's intelligent update system, this means that NOTHING gets updated because apparently if it fails on one update, Windows removes the failed updates AND all the non-failed updates.
Now that they've all been downloaded to my computer, I can't figure out how to install them one at a time to figure this out. Does anyone else know? If they weren't downloaded yet, I could just do them one at a time. But apparently they are already on my computer somewhere. I need to delete them and install them one at a time.
(Interesting note - I notice that the first fail was a "Windows 10 Home" update back on July 28th. I haven't made my computer eligible for the free upgrade yet, so I'm not sure what that's all about. Then every few days, I'll get the same Windows 10 update error. I'm assuming it's failing because I've elected NOT to install it yet. Those are the only errors until about 3 days ago. Now MOST updates fail, including security and misc. updates, but not all.)
BTW - I tried deleting the software distribution folder to no avail.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 / Linux Mint 17.2 / OS X
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel i5 4660 3.2
- Motherboard
- Asus H97I-PLUS
- Memory
- 8GB