Windows 10: 10.0.19043.1023 Getting 0x800f0922 with KB5003637 Update, Even Offline

My C: drive is now a WD Black WD2003FZEX-00SRLA0, replacing the original WD2002FAEX-007BA0 which died of old age (failed to spin up one evening; SMART data was perfect). The other WD2002FAEX-007BA0 remains as a data disk. For some time now I've had problems with about half the Windows Updates. They download and install fine, but on reboot the running progress number hangs at 100%. Rebooting allows undoing the update and recovery, and the Windows Update screen tells me that I have error 0x800f0922. Until the KB5003637 update, my workaround was to download the update file and run it manually. Now, with build [Version 10.0.19043.1023], even that fails with the same error. Things I have done up to now: Download and run KB5003637 update manually.Check my partition sizes. My Recovery Partition is 529 MB and my EFI partition is 100 MB. On the Disk Management screen, the Recovery Partition is first, the EFI partition is second, and the rest of the 2 TB HD is the system partition with the Disk Management screen listing Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Basic Data Partition for it.Checked my App Readiness Service. It was OK, but stopped and restarted it anyway.Rebuilt the Performance Counter settings with "lodctr /R" in ...\System32 and ...\SysWOW64, then resynced the counters with WMI using "winmgmt.exe /resyncperf"Delete the fonts from my Recovery Partition (mount it as Y: using "mountvol Y: /s" and deleting all the fonts in EFI\Microsoft\Boot\Fonts from the command line). My next step is to boot to GPARTED LIVE and expand my Recovery Partition to 700 MB. Before I do that, I thought that I would come here and look around, having had really great tech support here in the past with Windows 7 and Windows 10.

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Kb5003637

That glitch was widely reported when the Preview update was released as KB5003214
KB5003214 update for Windows 10 is causing taskbar problems -- but there's a simple fix

It was supposedly fixed when the patch Tuesday update was released today as KB5003637
https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/0...ne-installers/

Some people have reported already that turning of the new - installed taskbar - news and interest feeds has resolved the issue.

My own opinion is that this is yet another example of Windows10 being increasing less tolerant of third part apps that change the basic settings of 10 - eg in your case Classic Start Menu

 

Kb5003637

After reading the "Windows 10 Build 19043.1052 is now available, download offline installers" and what the update does, I don't have any need of it, I don't use the news feeds.

 

KB5003637 Windows 10 2004 19041.1052, 20H2 19042.1052, 21H1 19043.1052 Win Update

" KB5003637 "..........yes , fast and easy .........no errors , so far !