Windows 10 Update freeze

ERG89 · 2016-09-15 17:53:44

I was checking for a windows 10 update earlier and I guess my brother turned off my laptop when it was downloading an update and its frozen at 45% for over an hour. I have tried looking in the task manager to stop the update, I did it this way before but I forgot how. :mad: Anyone able to help how I can stop this update or…

15-09-2016 05:53PM

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ERG89

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I was checking for a windows 10 update earlier and I guess my brother turned off my laptop when it was downloading an update and its frozen at 45% for over an hour.
I have tried looking in the task manager to stop the update, I did it this way before but I forgot how. :mad:
Anyone able to help how I can stop this update or restart it.

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#2 15-09-2016 09:00PM

Hoagy

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This seems to be a widespread issue, there is a long thread on Tenforums about it.

http://www.tenforums.com/windows-10-news/63552-cumulative-update-kb3189866-windows-10-build-14393-187-a.html

The workaround is to go Microsoft Catalog and manually download and install the update, I did this on two machines and it worked fine.

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