Potential Windows Update Database Error Detected

I applied the "Fix Windows Update Issues" three times and continue to receive the 'Potential Windows Update Database error Detected "Not Fixed"'

Hi Nancy,

A potential file corruption might be a possible cause for this issue. The error that you have encountered means your operating system is trying to install updates on your PC. Please try performing Fix Windows Update issues and follow the detailed instructions on the thread to help solve the concern.

Let us know how it goes.

paul, to tell you the truth, I could neither work nor playing my installed microsoft games because of this horror May 2018 updates. I spent 3 days fixing it in every possible way. It still horrifies me to these days. Finally, I had given up fixing the update troubles and used my imac instead for a week. 

Then a week later it just installed properly by itself!  (To my astonishment indeed.) 

I am a noob so I fixed it in a noobish way so please don't judge me.

1. Since the updating needs internet, in my case I turned off my internet when I turned on my computer.

It helped stopping update terror when you turn on your pc.

(If you need the internet, please do this ;

In the Settings App

Go to Network and Internet

Set your WiFi connection as Metered)

2. If your pc running so slow you may need "clean reboot". 
3. If clean reboot still doesn't fix it (mine didn't work), you may need "clean install".

(To my despair I almost did it. But as I told you, update just installed itself by miracle days later.)

4) This method is for another people who just google search about update troubles and don't try this yet.

Disable windows update via "services.msc". Search service.msc and you will go to the services panel.

Scroll down to click on Windows update, disable it and also disable the restart (after update failure). 

But for paul, "updates failed retry" is because windows 10 already started updating and we disable the windows update services. The hellish loop starts. 

Turn the update on again and disable the internet just to get by working on your pc for a while without updating loop.

And let's see.

Or "clean reboot".

Or "clean install", it is the last resort left.

Hope it helps.

WINDOWS 10 HAS SO MANY PROBLEMS AND COMPLAINTS FOR SO MANY YEARS.

What astonishes me more than its trouble is the way Microsoft engineers' IGNORANCE about it

I doubt there's any fix for this, plenty of problems but never any solutions, maybe it's time i bought a mac, im sick and tired of all these stupid problems.

John already replied 2 days before you that this doesn't work.