What the forget is going on with my computer? *** NOT SOLVED ***

[Tactical Nuke]

I have Windows 10 on my computer and it's constantly trying to update to a different version of Windows 10. I download the update and it needs to restart in order to "finish" installing it, so I choose "Update and Restart" before I go to bed.

I wake up and it's still going and it doesn't say how much percent is left to download, so I head off to class and I do the things I need to do and I come back about three hours later and it's still going, so in order to do my work (I need my computer to do it), I have to manually reset my computer twice so that it reverts to the old version and I can actually do things.

This process has been repeated every single day for two weeks, and it's gotten to the point where I'm starting to think my computer is starting to die (I bought it five years ago).

I've considered that I wasn't giving it enough time to update, so last night I chose "Update and Restart" (at around 4:00 AM) and I woke up today and went to do tech for the winter musical. It was going until 10:00 PM, so I felt that that would be enough time.

I just checked during break (~5:00 PM, that's more than 12 hours to do this) and it looks no different than usual whatsoever.

/help

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[cooolguy32]

I think you should get new a PC.

[Corderlain]

Go back to win7

[Mr Queeba]

Windows 10 is a loving bullstuff OS and forces you to install updates, unfortunately.
You can try this stuff to stop Windows 10 from force restarting your PC:
Turning on the metered connection option (doesn't work on ethernet, I believe I heard that you can do a registry hack to forcefully put it in anyway?)
Setting your "active hours", which Windows will not auto-reboot your PC in

As for what's actually happening, I really don't know too well. I'll just say the obvious: Windows 10 is having trouble installing the updates.

[Ipquarx]

Unfortunately, there is literally no way to stop Win10 from installing updates. This is one of the main reasons I never switched to it, amongst other things.

If re-installing the OS doesn't work, you'll have to switch to 7, 8.1, or something different altogether. There are plenty of great start menu programs for 8.1 that make it as seamless as it was in win7.

[rambo1220]

Don't Update and Restart, let it Update and then shut it down, then start it again, let the Update finish, if it needs to happen a second time then do it a second time, but this will hopefully fix your issue.

[McJob]

If what Rambo suggested doesn't work;

This sounds like a Windows Update issue, which can happen for many reasons. Let's attempt resolve it by flushing and resetting Windows Update;

• Open the Command Prompt in Administrator Mode by right clicking the Command Prompt in the Start Menu and pressing "Run As Administrator".
• Type in the following commands and press enter after each:

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net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptsvc
Del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr*.dat"
Ren %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.bak
Ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.bak
sc.exe sdset bits D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)
sc.exe sdset wuauserv D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)
cd /d %windir%\system32
regsvr32.exe atl.dll
regsvr32.exe urlmon.dll
regsvr32.exe mshtml.dll
regsvr32.exe shdocvw.dll
regsvr32.exe browseui.dll
regsvr32.exe jscript.dll
regsvr32.exe vbscript.dll
regsvr32.exe scrrun.dll
regsvr32.exe msxml.dll
regsvr32.exe msxml3.dll
regsvr32.exe msxml6.dll
regsvr32.exe actxprxy.dll
regsvr32.exe softpub.dll
regsvr32.exe wintrust.dll
regsvr32.exe dssenh.dll
regsvr32.exe rsaenh.dll
regsvr32.exe gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32.exe sccbase.dll
regsvr32.exe slbcsp.dll
regsvr32.exe cryptdlg.dll
regsvr32.exe oleaut32.dll
regsvr32.exe ole32.dll
regsvr32.exe shell32.dll
regsvr32.exe initpki.dll
regsvr32.exe wuapi.dll
regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll
regsvr32.exe wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32.exe wucltui.dll
regsvr32.exe wups.dll
regsvr32.exe wups2.dll
regsvr32.exe wuweb.dll
regsvr32.exe qmgr.dll
regsvr32.exe qmgrprxy.dll
regsvr32.exe wucltux.dll
regsvr32.exe muweb.dll
regsvr32.exe wuwebv.dll
netsh winsock reset
netsh winhttp reset proxy
net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start appidsvc
net start cryptsvc

• Restart your PC.

And please, don't listen to Queeba or Ipquarx. The fact that they're recommending downgrading your OS to fix a simple cache issue should be enough to prove they're out of their loving minds.

[Tactical Nuke]

-snip-

should those regsvr32.exe commands be executed strictly in order
I accidentally did urlmon.dll before atl.dll and now I'm getting error messages for the rest of them

[Tactical Nuke]

UPDATE: It worked. I think. What exactly is supposed to happen?

[Pastrey Crust]

Stop going into russian research sites.

[Refticus]

Stop going into russian research sites.

but then where would i get my weird research

[Gytyyhgfffff]

UPDATE: It worked. I think. What exactly is supposed to happen?

well it probably isn't going to give you a congratulations message
the updates should just stop

[McJob]

What exactly is supposed to happen?

You should be able to now successfully download and install updates as per normal without it getting stuck for hours.

Generally what happens is that the cache used by Windows Update gets a bit corrupt (there can be numerous reasons for this), and WU essentially "gives up" when it runs into a problem installing these updates. I had similar issues as well. Resetting the cache and all of Windows Update's service files will let it download everything anew and properly this time, and fix any configuration issues.

[e-maxx]

but then where would i get my weird research

Finnish research sites

[Pastrey Crust]

Finnish research sites

They're much safer.