2025-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5049981) hung on 20% for hours and my pc is unusable

This morning i have 3 updates waiting to be installed

2025-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5049981) hung on 20% installing and stays that way for 3h now and i can not use my pc, because it is extremely slow.

Hello! I do not know if this applies to your problem or not but I wanted to make you aware that there seems to be a bug in that update KB5049981 for Windows that users here & over in Windows 10 Help Forum are seeing Please see this post below about it https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-7023-service-control-managersystem-guard/38c44edb-d206-4506-9ed4-eb164acb739c . MS needs to address this problem as this concerns the integrity to the Windows platform. Good luck.

Respectfully,

No one "reached out," you idiot. They posted a message.

I've been having an issue where my laptop will install an update and get stuck at 94% or 98%. The ball will stop spinning and the fan on my laptop will blow loudly. I have had to force my laptop to shut down since nothing would happen. I have done this continuously and finally I got into some blue screen and was able to input my bit locker code and uninstall the update. I have no idea how I got to the blue screen but it thankfully brought me back to a working computer.

Just today, when I went to turn off my computer I saw the option to update and restart my computer so I chose that option and the same thing happened again where the update would get stuck at 94% or 98% each time and I would have to force the computer to shut down. The computer tells me do not turn of the computer since it is currently updating but it is clearly frozen.

I went through a series of forced shut downs (probably 8 times). And randomly my computer is back at my normal screen but it looks like when I go to shut down it is recommending an update. I am really weary of doing an update since it's only caused me problems.

Is there something wrong with the update? Can I go without updates to my laptop?

Each time my computer freezes like this from the update, I spend over an hour forcing shut down, etc.

Any ideas what's going on?

Update!!!

22:12 after around 14 hours the update is done.

SO i basically run the update and restarted the PC multiply times during the day and maybe at the 7th or 8th time, i stopped counting after the 4th try it suddenly finished. The last time it was about 3h at 20% and suddenly my PC told me that i need to restart the machine in order to finish the update, so i restarted, it took about 20 min to restart and now the update is done, my PC is working normal again?

No idea!

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community and I'll be glad to assist you today.

I'm sorry to hear that your Windows updates have been stuck installing at 20% for the past three hours. Cumulative updates typically take 15 minutes or less to install. If it's taking longer, you can try force shutting down your computer to see if that helps.

1. Press and hold the power button on your device for 30 seconds to completely turn it off.
2. Wait a few minutes, then turn your computer back on.

Your device will either display the Automatic Repair screen or continue the installation of the updates.

Let me know how it goes.

HI I have had the same problem and done as you have said in your reply, but still with no joy