Windows 10: Window's Update issues after reinstall and more

Hi everyone,

New here, but have been an observer to the forum for many years.

Apologies I think I have this in the wrong forum, but unsure how to move or delete it

So long story short hopefully. Have an Acer with Windows 10.

I had to do a reinstall of windows using my USB recovery drive, however something happened during that and it didn't work which then meant that I had to enter the BIOS to make sure that the laptop was booting up on start-up to install windows. After getting that done and having to quickly remove the USB when it restarted so it installed Windows rather than reboot USB. So I now have windows installed.

I now seem to have a number of multiple issues. The first one being when I go to the windows update, I am getting multiple updates but also "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes" I had a look online and saw about using the Windows Update Troubleshooter which I did but didn't fix the issue. I also saw about using the Command function and doing DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth followed by a sfc/ scannnow , I checked back with Windows update but again it made no difference and the message was still there.

Most of the updates have been installed but I am still unable to install this update

2020-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems (KB4537762) and am still getting the Your device is missing important security and quality fixes.

I also tried going into gpedit.msc through Windows Key and R and when I hit enter I got "Windows cannot find gpedit.msc. Make sure you've typed the name correctly then try again." It had been typed correctly so not sure what has happened, I was able to download a gpedit enable for Windows 10 and installed that and now seem to have access to that. I tried changing the telemetry level to enable and enhanced but again this didn't fix the "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes".

Have also tried Manually Reset Windows Update Service through the command function as Admin but when I type "net stop wuauserv" its saying the service could not be stopped.
Ran a batch file to reset WU services and while it did stop the windows update on the command, I still am getting the same message "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes.

The laptop is extremely slow at the moment but I am hoping that is due to all the rubbish that's on it after the reinstall of windows and just the overall rebuilding of it.

I would be eternally grateful if someone could help or point me in the right direction on how to get this fixed and if there is anything else I should be checking to make sure the laptop is going to run smoothly in future.

I look forward to hearing from you

Dawn

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Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.

Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

Windows update issues

Came here to suggest this.*Laugh :laugh:

Definitely not an issue with the Windows Servers as I just re-installed yesterday and got all my updates.

 

[Solved] Windows 10 keeps reinstalling KB3119142

I noticed quite some time ago that KB3119142 (Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 Redistributable Package) kept reinstalling itself for some reason. At least once daily. Sometimes up to several times a day. I just ignored it. It didn't seem to be doing any harm. And I figured they'd eventually fix it. Well...days turned into weeks, weeks into months, with no end to the problem in sight. It dragged on unsolved for at least the last few months. Literally reinstalling itself hundreds of(at least a hundred, felt like more) times in that period of time.

So I finally googled it a couple days ago. And just got around to fixing it today. Which appears to have worked. And it couldn't have been easier to do. I feel so stupid to have let it intimidate me for so long.*Oops!

Below are links to the thread that I got the fix idea from, and the official MS support info page for KB3119142(from which I quoted the above).
http://www.tenforums.com/windows-up...-windows-10-keeps-reinstalling-kb3119142.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3119142