I recommend to try performing repair upgrade using this community guide:
Hope this helps!
windows update not working
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I want to update Windows but I can't
and when I want to activate it from the service menu, this warning appears
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update
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Lester Bernard Reyes 82,025 Reputation points Independent Advisor2024-09-10T02:13:35+00:00 Hi, thank you for replying, to do that, kindly follow the steps from the link below:
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Anonymous
2024-09-10T02:07:10+00:00 If none will work from the above solution, I suggest doing an in-place upgrade wherein it will upgrade the device to the latest version and repair all issues without deleting any files.
How to do that?
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Lester Bernard Reyes 82,025 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2024-09-10T01:53:56+00:00 Hi, thanks for reaching out. My name is Bernard a Windows fan like you. I'll be happy to help you out today, my timezone is UTC +8.
I understand the issue you have, there is nothing to worry I am here to help, this issue occurred due to miscalibration on the Windows update, and for us to sort out the issue, kindly follow the steps below:
Reset Windows update components:
Open Powershell with Admin or CMD with Admin (Press Windows key + X then click Windows Powershell(Admin))
Copy each line of command to Powershell then press enter (one line at a time)
net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
net stop appidsvc
net stop cryptsvc
Del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\*.*"
rmdir %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution /S /Q
rmdir %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 /S /Q
regsvr32.exe /s atl.dll
regsvr32.exe /s urlmon.dll
regsvr32.exe /s mshtml.dll
netsh winsock reset
netsh winsock reset proxy
net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start appidsvc
net start cryptsvc
-Once done restart the device and check.
If none will work from the above solution, I suggest doing an in-place upgrade wherein it will upgrade the device to the latest version and repair all issues without deleting any files.
Kindly follow the steps from this link:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...
Let me know how it goes and I hope that helps.
Bernard