Hello,
Bought a Dell Inspiron laptop last year: i5, 4 GB RAM, Win 8 x64 pre-installed. This year, upgraded it to Win 8.1.
Now that Win 10 is out and is being offered for free, I decided to download it, but read that first you have to fully update the Win 8 / 7 copy that you have installed. So I ran Windows Update yesterday, and downloaded about 1.4 GBs of updates. It took more than two hours for the process to complete, but in the end it showed that x number of updates failed. When I opened the view installed updates section, it showed whole pages of updates that have failed during installation. I noticed it just yesterday.
There is no option to re-download and install again. If I run Windows Update, it says there are no new updates available. It also gave me the Win 10 download tool (to reserve a copy), but I'm not going to use that. I'm using Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Comodo Firewall; I've read that security softwares often mess with the update process.
I ran the Fix It Tool from Microsoft; it said it fixed the following three things:
Service registration is missing or corrupt
Windows Update error 0x80070490(2015-09-11-T-05_33_39P)
Problems installing recent updates
When I ran Windows Update again, it said no more updates are available, and the installed updates section still shows the updates as failed.
So how do I delete the failed updates and reinstall them again? Or is it necessary, since I am planning to upgrade to Win 10 anyway?
Bought a Dell Inspiron laptop last year: i5, 4 GB RAM, Win 8 x64 pre-installed. This year, upgraded it to Win 8.1.
Now that Win 10 is out and is being offered for free, I decided to download it, but read that first you have to fully update the Win 8 / 7 copy that you have installed. So I ran Windows Update yesterday, and downloaded about 1.4 GBs of updates. It took more than two hours for the process to complete, but in the end it showed that x number of updates failed. When I opened the view installed updates section, it showed whole pages of updates that have failed during installation. I noticed it just yesterday.
There is no option to re-download and install again. If I run Windows Update, it says there are no new updates available. It also gave me the Win 10 download tool (to reserve a copy), but I'm not going to use that. I'm using Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Comodo Firewall; I've read that security softwares often mess with the update process.
I ran the Fix It Tool from Microsoft; it said it fixed the following three things:
Service registration is missing or corrupt
Windows Update error 0x80070490(2015-09-11-T-05_33_39P)
Problems installing recent updates
When I ran Windows Update again, it said no more updates are available, and the installed updates section still shows the updates as failed.
So how do I delete the failed updates and reinstall them again? Or is it necessary, since I am planning to upgrade to Win 10 anyway?
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