Subj : Microsoft might have solved Windows 11s most annoying update prob
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 13:00:04

Microsoft might have solved Windows 11s most annoying update problem

Date:
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:40:48 +0000

Description:
Could Windows 11 update installation failures be a thing of the past? We can 
but hope

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 Windows 11 and Windows 10 have just received an update that smooths over the 
Windows update process itself, and weve got our fingers tightly crossed that 
this could cure a particularly annoying and long-standing bug. 

 Neowin spotted that Microsoft Update Health Tools is now being piped to 
Windows 11 (21H2, 22H2) and Windows 10 (21H2, 22H2) PCs as patch KB4023057 (a 
mandatory automatic update). 

In the support document for KB4023057, Microsoft tells us that: On Windows 
consumer devices, this update helps remediate smooth functioning of Windows 
Update. 

Now, the trouble here is that Microsoft does not elaborate beyond that simple 
statement. We dont know exactly what tinkering has gone on under the hood 
here, and were left to guess at what might have been implemented. 

So, lets just do that  hazard a guess. Now, bearing firmly in mind that this 
is just a shot in the dark on the speculation front, our hope is that this 
might just be a cure for the well-known update installation failure bugs that 
have persisted for a long time now. 

This is where you attempt to install the latest Windows 11 (or 10) cumulative 
update and it just fails to work with no explanation other than a garbage 
error message that tells you nothing. It just leaves you staring at a 
meaningless string of hexadecimal ( such as error code 0x80070103  real 
helpful). Analysis: Hope springs eternal 

Our thinking here is that because Microsoft specifically says that this 
update helps with the smooth functioning of the Windows Update process, that 
suggests its about stability and reliability. As opposed to it being about, 
say, faster updates (a topic Microsoft has made promises about in the past ). 

Because this is about the way updates actually function or work, this gives 
us hope that just maybe itll tackle that huge thorny problem of them not 
working with those gobbledegook error messages. Or even if it doesnt stamp 
out those installation failures, it may at least cut back on them (as we see 
a lot of these reports time and time again with new Windows updates). 

Whatever this does, we should see more reliable Windows updates in some 
manner. Even if it just helps to resolve cases where a new patch isnt offered 
to a PC, to take another common error (one which weve seen reported earlier 
today, in fact, along with complaints that a fresh Windows 10 update has 
broken some printers ).



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-might-have-solved-windows-11s-most-an
noying-update-problem


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