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• Microsoft confirms bugs in this month’s Win10 1709 cumulative update

  Posted on December 21, 2017 at 01:02 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Update on these bugs and two more — an Excel 2016 security patch bug from last month, and an Exchange Server security patch bug from this month — Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Of course, you’ve known about it all along.This month’s cumulative update for Win10 1709 is a mess.

  Besides, we’re still on MS-DEFCON 2, so you didn’t try to install this month’s patches – and you aren’t running Win10 Fall Creators Update, anyway, right?

  Right?

  MS just posted confirmation of what we’ve known for some time: KB 4054517 installation may freeze at 99%, and Windows Update History may throw a bogus Error 0x80070643

  There’s a manual fix for the former, and an apology for the latter. For those of you who lost hours (or in some cases days) trying to figure out why your machine didn’t get the latest build of the latest version working, well, here’s your Automatic Update lump of coal.

  MS says it will provide an update in an upcoming release.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4054517/windows-10-update-kb4054517

  Windows Patches/Security 0x80070643, December 2017 Black Tuesday, KB 4054517

• Win10 Fall Creators Update cumulative update KB 4054517 refusing to install

  Posted on December 17, 2017 at 10:04 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  UPDATES: See my Computerworld Woody on Windows article.

  I saw the first heads up here on AskWoody, from @jwhiz56. He says:

  This KB installed on my MS Surface Pro 3, my HP HPDV8T laptop but refuses to install on my 2017 Surface Pro (purchased just before Thanksgiving).  I’ve reset it multiple ways (the OS) and the update either sits at 99% downloaded, or it fails on installation.  my C:\windows\logs\CBS directory eats up ALL of my disk free space.  I’ve tried all hints/suggestions on the Microsoft forums related to this KB.  when I downloaded the standalone version for my computer x86/windows 10, it says it’s not applicable to my computer.

  Now I’m seeing similar complaints all over the web. There this massive complaint thread on the Microsoft Answers forum, for example. Microsoft’s only suggestion (forgive me if you’ve heard this one) is a clean install. And even that doesn’t seem to work all of the time.

  Following @Bob99’s suggestion, I Googled “KB 4054517 problems” and found several possible solutions.

  The Sihmar site says that there are similar problems with KB 4053580 (this month’s cumulative update for Win10 Creators Update, version 1703). Pramod Singh breaks it down to three known symptoms:

  Currently, there are three different kinds of update problems users are facing. First, while downloading the update (fail to download or update stuck). Second, update installation issues and finally, blue screen (BSOD) error after reboot.

  He gives a series of possible fixes.

  Has anybody encounter the problem? Have you tried Singh’s solutions?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4054517