Windows 10: Windows Never Updates. Always Reverts Back to 1709

Hello


I've been having a really hard time with Windows updates. It seems my computer has been on 1709 for the longest time and it won't update to 1803 or 1809. I keep getting updates for 1709 and they are working but I always have popups and interruptions for 1803 and 1809 that randomly come up, download, slow my machine down and restart it without me wanting. After all that it never actually updates. After I get a popup for the newest features, run the update and my machine restarts I'll get the same popup 10 minutes later.


Machine has an i7 7700k, 32 gigs ram, 2 gtx 1070s non SLI. Windows 10 Home.


I've done everything I think I can to get this machine to update. I've ran the updater from the settings menu. As you can see I have updates pending but they never install. Yet my 1709 updates seem recent and install with no problems.


https://imgur.com/a/RRNLlrl


I've also downloaded and ran the Windows Update Assistant many times and it always fails at 30% and reverts my computer back to 1709.


https://streamable.com/4lkbc


I did try running the troubleshooter and that didn't work. Also tried disabling Mcafee because I thought that it was messing with things as well to no avail. I haven't messed with any prefs within windows.


I did have this problem once before and when I called microsoft they ended up bricking my machine trying to force the updates and made me go to the microsoft store to get it fixed but when I went to the store they told my my PC was custom and they wouldn't touch it. The whole machine had to be reinstalled and I had to rebuild the whole machine. Had this problem even with a fresh install after that.


Kind of backed into a corner here and it's pretty frustrating. I'm coming from the mac world and I use the machine for 3D and 2D animation and design. Renders going overnight will get slowed down and cancelled when the machine decides to update and restart itself and there seems like no way of making it go away since the machine will perpetually run the same update over and over. I've literally been living with this problem for almost a year and I want to get to the bottom of it.


If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

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OK, so here's the commonly recommended steps that should help you with your problem.

Before you begin, I would recommend you to download both of these files and save them on your USB drive in order to use it later as the only source of third-party packages:

• http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp67001-67500/sp67259.exe
• Download nicht abgeschlossen | AMD

1. The first step would be to recover the original Windows installation using your hard drive partition (the thing that you've done before, I believe). Follow the steps described here (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03544793#N258) and see if you missed anything. By the end of this operation, make so that your HP product is not connected to any sort of network.

2. Configure your HP device to boot in "clean" mode as described here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135). Restart once.

3. Run the first file you've downloaded (http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp67001-67500/sp67259.exe) from your just-recovered Windows copy and follow the steps required.

4. Run the AMD package (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-catalyst-14.4-64bit-win8.1-win8-win7-whql-aug.exe). Choose the "Advanced" installation option in order to be able to opt-out the "AMD/Raprt App" and "HydraVision" packages.

5. Establish an Internet connection. Run "Windows Store" tile from your Start screen, and select "Windows 8.1" package.

6. Once you're done with your migration from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, you can install all the critical updates offered by Windows Update, which would be driver software, then Windows 8.1 Update package (KB2919442 > KB2919355 > KB2932046 > KB2959977 > KB2937592 > KB2938439 > KB2934018), "August" Update (KB2993651 > KB2975719 > KB2993100 > KB2979582 > KB2990532 > KB2995004) and .NET Framework 4.5.2 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42642).