Subj : Windows 10 update installation failures arent rare but an update To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Jan 14 2025 12:45:05 Windows 10 update installation failures arent rare but an update that wont stop installing itself is a new one on me Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:42:48 +0000 Description: Windows 10 update is the gift that keeps on giving if you enjoy an update repeatedly installing itself over and over. FULL STORY ======================================================================Patch KB5048239 for Windows 10 was first deployed in November 2024 Its now been installed again as part of Microsofts patching for January 2025 However, this update is reportedly installing itself over and over again, and for quite a number of Windows 10 users it seems Ever had a Windows 10 (or Windows 11) update that failed to install? Thats a problem Ive noticed happens relatively often, but a new twist on misfiring updates is a patch that keeps on installing itself, despite being successfully installed in the past. This is what's apparently happening with Windows 10, and the update in question is patch KB5048239, as Neowin reports. Its useful to cover the backstory here, which is that KB5048239 was pushed out to Windows 10 PCs (on 21H2 and 22H2) in November 2024 (among other patches), as a cure for problems with the WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) which themselves have a lengthy history . However, last year, KB5048239 failed to install for some people due to them not having enough space in their Windows 10 recovery partition (a minimum of 250MB is necessary). Microsoft then issued a bunch of advice to affected users and tried to smooth out the update, but it seems that Windows 10 is now trying to deliver KB5048239 again. And again and again and (you get the idea). Dean Wortmier tells us on Microsofts help forum, Answers.com , that: This particular update installed successfully for me in November 2024, and is trying to install again today -- over and over and over... -- each time successfully. Another complaint comes from Brian Lofthouse : Hi to you all. I checked my updates this morning and KB5048239 was waiting to be installed again! I run the troubleshooter and it installed again, I checked View updates and it had changed the date from yesterday to today! It is like a Merry-go-round. I can feel a migraine coming on! Those two threads have had 353 people click that they have the same question to give you an idea of the scale of the impact here (at the time of writing). So, this appears to be an issue affecting a fair few folks running Windows 10. (Image credit: Marjan Apostolovic / Shutterstock) Is there any way out of this mess? As to a resolution for the little update that wouldnt give up, the not-so-great news is that there doesnt appear to be one. Whatever people are trying to do, such as removing the older version of this update before letting the newest one for January 2025 install, doesnt make any difference. They are still getting KB5048239 installing over and over. Even those whose WinRE setup is fine (and the partition is large enough) are still being hit by this debacle, as noted on this thread over at the Ask Woody forums. Does having this patch installed over and over actually matter, though? Will it detrimentally affect your system? Probably not, but even if this isnt throwing small spanners into the Windows 10 works somewhere, its still annoying to see the same update getting downloaded and installed repeatedly. Those who dont know whats going on here may assume their PC has some kind of serious bug or even virus and maybe waste a fair bit of time trying to diagnose and fathom whats going on. Hopefully Microsoft will have an announcement coming, and Ive reached out to the company to find out (Ill update this story with any response). For now, though, about all you can do is grin and bear it (or frown and bear it, more like). One option is to pause Windows 10 updates for as long as you can (with the side effect that you wont get other updates, of course which might be bad news in itself). Otherwise, its just a matter of waiting for Microsoft to fix this (we've contacted the company for comment), which hopefully will happen fairly soon considering that this is a problem plaguing a non-trivial number of Windows 10 users, from what I can tell. You may also like... How to prepare for Windows 10 End of Life A Chrome-killing browser will be OpenAI's next big shot at Google, according to a new report Windows 11 remains an unloved OS but why won't people upgrade? ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-10-update-installation-fai lures-arent-rare-but-an-update-that-wont-stop-installing-itself-is-a-new-one-o n-me --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .