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Fixing a misbehaving computer

Posted on February 8, 2021 at 01:30 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

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Fixing a misbehaving computer

By Susan Bradley

Hitting the wall with Windows updates can be extremely frustrating and even scary. But machines that can’t install updates can be fixed.

On occasion, computers decide to drive your life crazy. When it comes to installing updates, they can often throw off confusing and unhelpful error messages. In the Windows 10 era, the Windows update error log and component-based servicing logs (cbs.log) can be hard to understand; see Microsoft’s Analyze the log file entries that SFC.exe generates article (which is still relevant to Windows 10) for help.

If you have a machine that is throwing off an error message when attempting to update, there are some paths forward.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.5.0 (2021-02-08).

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