Issues When Installing Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124262

[Exterminator]

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It’s not a secret that cumulative updates fail to install every once in a while for certain users, but despite the fact that Windows 10 was launched nearly six months ago, Microsoft is yet to come up with a fix for these problems.

So it was natural to expect the new cumulative update KB3124262 rolled out only a few hours ago to fail to install on a number of computers.

Posts on Microsoft’s Community forums point to issues that have already been experienced by users in the past when the Redmond-based software giant rolled out other cumulative updates for Windows 10.

The update is continuously being re-offered
After the installation process of KB3124262 fails, users are being offered the update over and over again, so unless they hide the patch, they keep getting the same error several times.

Here’s how one of the impacted users explains the issue:

“The two most recent Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64 System KB3124262 and KB3124263 have downloaded Ok but on Restart they have each frozen my computer at 30%. After waiting for an hour or so I forced a reboot on both occasions. Computer then rebooted Ok, but both Cumulative updates still sit in Windows Update awaiting a restart, even though the computer has been restarted many times.”

For the moment, there’s no workaround to install the cumulative update, and judging from the previous cases when the other patches experienced similar issues, Microsoft is very unlikely to provide a fix.

So right now, you are on your own in the struggle to install cumulative updates, but we promise to provide you with a fix as soon as we get one. The only thing that you could try right now is to install the cumulative update manually using these links for x86 and x64 (make sure you download the correct version for your PC).

Will they ever get it right ? Maybe right before they stop support for Windows 10

 

[Ink]

Find out about Hiding Updates on Windows 10: Windows 10 - Support Tool to Hide/Show Windows Updates

I have this update waiting to install..

 

[Exterminator]

Find out about Hiding Updates on Windows 10: Windows 10 - Support Tool to Hide/Show Windows Updates

I have this update waiting to install..

I had no problems with it except on one desktop.After a restart it finally downloaded and installed.So far no duplicate updates.

 

[Soulbound]

Had no problems on this machine nor on VM.
thats how I like it.

 

[frogboy]

Luckily again no problem installing here.

 

[McLovin]

I've had no problem installing.

 

[frogboy]

Looks like you had a few problems with kb3119142.

 

[Deleted member 2913]

Installed fine on Win 10 64 here.

 

[McLovin]

Looks like you had a few problems with kb3119142.

Yeah not sure what happened there. haha

 

[jamescv7]

Do we need to say this all over again?

Unfortunately its a terrible to see about no solution for the moment that a typical novice user may just panic and disrupt the task wanted to do.

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

4262 went fine for me, but I have opted out of insider builds back in Nov. and will stay that way till summer, so I am waiting much longer for updates. The trade off is my updates *seem to be more stable.

 

[Der.Reisende]

Didn't even notice it had arrived on my x64 Win10 Home Laptop - until the restart.
Installed like a charm on both laptop and tower PC.