Windows 10: Cumulative updates take far too long to download/install

I can't believe it. Give me the good old days of Windows 7 or even go back to XP. Downloads and updates were considered long at 15 minutes but now with Windows 10 anywhere from 2 hours to a full day just to install some damn stupid update that will probably have no bearing on my system anyway. I mean come on Microsoft...does everyone out here really need these so-called security patches. Security patches my a##! All you geeks do is waste our time when all we want to do is get a little work done or have little fun on the computer but you have taken all the joy out of that too. My system was jus

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Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3156387) will not install

Anyone else having problems getting the Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3156387) installed? This update has been failing for me & doing a failed to update after downloading & reboot, then rebooting & removing the update.

V 10.0 build 10240

 

Can't install Cumulative Updates for v1909

I was having a different error than you, but still could not get any updates to work without failing after download - whether through Windows Update or downloading from the Catalog and doing it locally. After trying many people's lists of how to reset Windows Update, I finally did the Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Installation & Upgrade by Shawn Brink. Other than going in and turning off Defender and the Firewall just in case to speed things up when it was "Getting Ready" (this step took about 2 hours for me), this worked flawlessly. I went from a busted 19041.264, to a repaired 19041.84. I was then able to go into Windows Update, and about five updates installed perfectly including the May and June cumulative updates. Just a suggestion if you run out of ideas, I had!

 

How to force cumulative updates to install?

my first post here but a long time lurker I've got a question regarding the Cumulative updates offered as 'separate' downloads, I've deployed a script via task scheduler to automate the download and install of windows udpates this one right here:

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Which works very well in my environment, but the cumulative updates don't get downloaded and installed with that script for example:

2019-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems (KB4520008)
2019-10 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64 (KB4519572)

Do any of you guys may know a way of forcing those 'separated cumulative updates' to be included in that script?

Thank you