Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On 31 Dec 2024 20:45:03 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

  And FTR, in 20+ years I've had only one case - on only one of two
systems - where Windows Update was somwhat messed up. Not broken, but
re-offering already installed updates, so I wanted to clean it up.

You're volunteering to be a beta tester but I had a machine on the
Insiders releases. About the time they juggled the developers and canary
classifications it would repeatedly try to update and fail. I was not the
only person affected. There was no path forward other than a complete
reinstall.

I have been to the point where you need to stop the updater service and
blow away the Software Update directory before restarting the service a
couple of times. Not a big deal but not something Aunt Tilly is going to
figure out without a visit by the Geek Squad.