Windows 10: Fix Windows Update error 0x800f024b on Windows 10

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Windows 10 Update Error 0x800f024b - Samsung Universal Print Driver 3

I'm getting a Windows 10 Update error 0x800f024b trying to install "Samsung - Printers - Samsung Universal Print Driver 3 - Error 0x800f024b". I don't and never have had a Samsung printer connected to my PC
knowingly. I say knowingly because I' recently took my PC in for service to a local repair shop and they may have connected it to one of their printers while it was in for repair. I've checked
my Device Manager and there are no printers listed in the display (my printer is network attached and it is an HP printer). Windows 10 (Pro) Update keeps trying to download and install the Samsung printer driver (listed above) but repeatedly fails with an
0x800f024b error every time. There is no printer driver (that I can find) so I can't uninstall it.

I contacted the Microsoft Answer Desk this morning and the agent was unable to "fix" this error. She said that this was an "optional" update and that I'd have to live with it until it corrected itself or Microsoft releasess another major update like 1511.
She ran a program on my PC called DISM but that didn't fix the problem. Surely there is a way to correct this problem without having to wait forever for Microsoft to release another major update.

Does anyone know how can I stop Windows 10 from continually trying to download and install this driver?

Thanks

James Borders

 

Windows 10 Update

Well just noticed a pretty large one pop up coming in at 914MB, seems it makes some pretty serous updates.

KB3172985
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172985

This security update includes improvements and fixes in the functionality of Windows 10 Version 1511 and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. It also resolves the following vulnerabilities in Windows:

• 3175677 MS16-094: Security update for secure boot: July 12, 2016
• 3174060 MS16-093: Security update for Adobe Flash Player: July 12, 2016
• 3171910 MS16-092: Security update for Windows Kernel: July 12, 2016
• 3170048 MS16-091: Security update for .Net Framework: July 12, 2016
• 3171481 MS16-090: Security update for Kernel Mode Drivers: July 12, 2016
• 3170050 MS16-089: Security update for Windows secure kernel mode: July 12, 2016
• 3170005 MS16-087: Security update for the Microsoft Print Spooler: July 12, 2016
• 3169999 MS16-085: Cumulative security update for Microsoft Edge: July 12, 2016
• 3169991 MS16-084: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: July 12, 2016

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.