Vms3430 upgrade failed - file failed to download

Learn from my mistakes. Here are three great articles by our own Windows sensei, Ed Bott, that should help you backup before you go forward. I often have older VMs pre-configured with a lot of custom tweaks, installed applications, and other elements. As such, it's often rather time-consuming to start from a fresh Windows image. But if you're able to, rather than going through the effort to update a version of Windows that was originally installed in or , start with a fresh Windows image that has the October update already installed.

In reviewing this post with Ed, he told me that the most common cause of those "Update failed" messages is that there are two updates waiting.

If one is a servicing stack update, it has to install first, and the machine has to restart before it can install the next update. Problem solved. A good read on this is Liam Tung's piece, Windows update problems: Microsoft reveals why recent patches broke some PCs. Even though it talks about some Windows 7 update issues, the underlying principle is the same. Microsoft actually ships Windows 10 with a Windows Update troubleshooting tool. I find the easiest way to reach it is simply type "troubleshoot" in the search box.

Because I'm working on an older revision of Windows 10, the screen above is shown. This will bring up the full Troubleshooting panel. You'll want to select "Fix problems with Windows Update. I didn't feel I needed to use Advanced options, so I just hit Next. That said, Ed recommends taking the extra minute and using Advanced Options. He says, "That runs the troubleshooter as an admin and allows it to fix a wider range of problems.

Of course, it's never a good idea to simply take Windows' word for anything like this, so I went back into Windows Update and ran it again. After a few hours, I had my result. The update that previously failed had completed properly and my system was fully up to date. Here's an interesting trick that's a big counter-intuitive. Assuming you're at a relatively recent version of Windows 10, you'll see this screen:. Slide the Pause Updates switch on. Restart your machine.

Then, once the machine is booted up fully, go back to that screen and slide the Pause Updates switch back to Off. If you tell Windows to pause updates, you'll clear all of the downloaded updates.

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