Right click the Start button and select Command Prompt (Admin). The disk can be checked for errors from within Windows, but I prefer the old command prompt version. It is aimed at Windows 10 users, but some of the tips also work with older versions of Windows.

Sometimes they have worked for me and they might work for you too. KB4093112 has been trying to install every day for three weeks and now KB4093105 is stuck too. It worked fine for months, maybe a year or more and now it is stuck on an update again. Eventually it started working again and the latest update installed. I didn’t work on it full time, but spent an hour or so on three or four occasions. It has happened to me and once it took two weeks to fix. Sometimes it is a minor problems that is easily fixed, but occasionally it turns out to be more serious, like Windows Update database errors or corruption. It gets stuck at different places for different people and probably for different reasons.

It just seems to get stuck at some point. It may not update at all, it might search for updates and never finish searching, it might try to install updates, fail and retry and never stop.

Windows can update perfectly well time after time and then it suddenly stops working. Maybe even Microsoft doesn’t know because sometimes there appears to be no fix at all. What is wrong with Windows Update and why does it fail so often? This is one of the the most common questions Windows users ask and no-one knows.

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