PM: people waiting for a W10 upgrade
I was looking through my event log (for something else) and noted a few errors. It seems W10 had tried to kick off the upgrade a few times and failed, all without telling me.
A bit of looking around yielded the following fix, which is provided as-is, without any warranty, it may not work, you may turn into a yellowjack toad if you even read further and I take no responsibility for anything. I'm trying it myself, waiting for the download to complete.
The error I had was eventID 20, text Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80240020: Upgrade to Windows 10 Home.
This error means the download is corrupted in some way.
1. Go into "C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload" and delete everything in that folder.
2. Now, run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in "wuauclt.exe /updatenow".
3. Go to your Control Panel > Windows Update and your Windows 10 will start downloading again..
Posted By: Old Man on August 1st 2015 at 13:25:36
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- PM: people waiting for a W10 upgrade (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 1, 13:25:36
- Macs have update problems as well. Ill informed replies there (General Chat) - pants, Aug 1, 14:05:20
- may be but its not something (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 1, 14:16:59
- Indeed, it's early adoption that's the problem (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 1, 14:09:41
- or use a mac (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 1, 14:01:10
- Same issue but this Microsoft response worth reading (General Chat) - Jack Flash, Aug 1, 13:58:50
- Thanks - though I got the advice from an official MS forum (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 1, 14:33:02
- im sitting back and waiting...... windows 8.1 works fine for me (General Chat) - usacanary, Aug 1, 13:48:11
- That path again for step 1 (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 1, 13:27:17
- I'm just getting the wmc tool to get it that way (thanks Ben) (n/m) (General Chat) - CauldRon, Aug 1, 13:48:24
- I've got the option to upgrade but so many folk saying it has problems so am waiting. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Aug 1, 14:00:35
- I'm just getting the wmc tool to get it that way (thanks Ben) (n/m) (General Chat) - CauldRon, Aug 1, 13:48:24
- Macs have update problems as well. Ill informed replies there (General Chat) - pants, Aug 1, 14:05:20
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