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Can't install Windows 8.1 Update - Error 0x800f081f
My laptop came with Windows 8 pre-installed. I installed all Microsoft updates, including that to 8.1 and have continued to do so.
The latest update which has come through is KB 2912355 which is a ...
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Windows update problems after fresh Windows 8.1 install
I did a fresh install of Windows and right off the bat, Windows update would hang when I had it search for updates. It would show searching for updates and then hang on that screen. I let it go for ...
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Windows update KB3013769, KB3013816 failing on Windows 8.1
I have two optional updates to install on my laptop, a lenovo Thinkpad X201. All mandatory updates have already been applied. It has failed repeatedly, despite me doing several reboots.
If I click ...
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Why does Disk Cleanup take so much time and cpu?
Just a curiosity question. Disk Cleanup has been spending 100% of one of my cores for quite a while and still going. Seems to be spending a lot of time especially on Windows Update Cleanup.
Can't ...
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I disabled Windows Update, but it wants to update nevertheless. How do I permanently cancel it?
I have disabled Windows Update on my laptop(HP Pavilion 15-e072nr) since forever, but when I wanted to shut down my laptop today, I saw that Windows had planned to update at shutdown anyway. Ie. the ...
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How to install Windows 8.1 update KB3033055 after installing all available updates available to date?
I have a computer with Windows 8 which has recently been formatted. Now I have gone through the two-day process of installing all available updates, and also Windows 8.1, with the goal to get to ...
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Win8.1 updates failing for months
I just noticed that nearly all of my Windows updates have been failing since 4/17/2022:
Just a few exceptions succeeded:
I tried following the suggestions at:
https://www.800error.com/KB2962409-...
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Does Windows 8.1 contain updates when downloaded with the Media Creation Tool?
If I download Windows 8.1 (to install on another PC) using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool would it include many recent updates, and of what kind? (I can find no recent answers). I'm presuming that ...
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How do you download the latest Windows Defender platform engine for offline PC, as well as the definitions?
How do you download the latest Windows Defender platform engine, as well as the definitions?
It is for computers that are not online yet, I would like to do this for both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
I ...
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Error C0190019 applying update operation 6503 of 138763 (SettingSync.dll)
Recently I was trying to update my Windows 8.1. I downloaded the update and started update process. As soon the the installations started I encountered the error mentioned above.
I did some research ...
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Cannot install Windows 8.1 Update Kb2919355. Windows Update Error 80073712
I'm running Win 8.1 Pro x64. On April 9th, I was offered two updates from Microsoft. Usually, updates install automatically through Windows update but the following two updates, I noticed today (April ...
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Regarding Windows update [duplicate]
I recently activated Windows 8.1 on a secondary laptop potato PC with 2GB of RAM and I want to prevent it from being updated to Windows 10, as that situation would be pathetic:
In Windows Updates, I ...
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Disable prevent Dropbox from Auto updating (via BITS) on Windows & roll back to last stable bug free version(s)?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/173890/can-i-stop-dropbox-from-automatically-updating-itself-on-os-x
How can I disable Dropbox from updating itself and start creating sync issues (as are ...
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Windows 8.1 error: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect [duplicate]
Hey so I have this error that keeps popping up since last windows update "The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event ...
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When downloading windows updates on Windows 8.1 the progress is stuck on 0% downloading
When downloading windows updates on Windows 8.1 the progress stays on 0%.
I have ran the Windows Update troubleshooter and restarted the Windows Update service. However TiWorker.exe is running.
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