Windows 10: KB5031356

When are Microsoft going to provide a straightforward solution to this issue? Like many others I have been struggling with a PC that slows down and prevents the system from functioning normally. I have wasted countless hours trying vague suggestions & solutions which do not help at all. It is an absolute farce and I suspect Microsoft may have engineered this to try and force people who have perfectly usable versions of Windows 10 to upgrade and buy a Windows 11 PC. Stop taking the p**s and get this sorted out!!

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Windows Update KB5031356 Question

I had a question regarding the update KB5031356. I have two Toshiba Dynabook A55-E laptops. They both are running Windows Home 10 64 bit. The only difference between these two laptops is whether the build is 19045.3570 or 19045.3448. Here are my results to date. One of these Dynabooks (call it Laptop A) is running 22H2 installed 12/4/21 as build 19045.3570. The installation update KB5031356 successfully installed on 11/10/23 without any issues and quite quickly. The other (call it Laptop B) is running 22H2 installed 26/7/20 as build 19045.3448. Several attempts to install KB5031356 have not been successful. The update stays at 20% installed for hours and hours and never completes. I therefore have paused windows updates on laptop B for the time being. I have run dism (checkhealth, scanhealth, and restorehealth) in addition to sfc /scannow and chkdisk on laptop B. All runs are successful. Before I attempt to try again to install KB5031356 on laptop B, I would like to know if anyone that may be running 19045.3448 has a successful install of this update. Any other comments/suggestions on this behaviour are also very welcome. Thanks.

 

Problem with a windows update KB5031356 (windows 10)

It installs here eventually but once installed the "Audio" taskbar icon has a red x "The Audio service is not running" checked all suggested fixes, services for audio all running, resistry keys ok. If I uninstall KB5031356 the problem remains. The only way to get it back to normal is to do a widows repair install. What have Microsoft done?

 

KB5031356 Windows 10 Cumulative Update Build 19045.3570 (22H2)  

Direct download links KB5031356 CU x64 - MSUpdateCatalog KB5031356 CU x86 - MSUpdateCatalog I also had a look at a dynamic version

windows10.0-kb5031356-x64_0d31171765b9155826bfa774366e3d63c891a290.cab but I have no idea how to install it [and I don't know what a dynamic update is anyway]. Neither it nor its several levels of subsidiary cab files contain an inf file.

Denis