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Windows 8.1 fails - windows update failing #240

Open Esfera5 opened 7 years ago

Esfera5 commented 7 years ago

I tried creating a Windows 8.1 image couple of days ago and it gets stuck while trying to install windows updates. After lots of googling, I found out one needs to:

  1. net stop wuauserv
  2. Install https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3102812/installing-and-searching-for-updates-is-slow-and-high-cpu-usage-occurs-in-windows-8.1-and-windows-server-2012-r2

Ref: https://superuser.com/questions/1120602/cannot-install-any-updates-on-clean-windows-8-1