{"id":149117,"date":"2025-10-29T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=149117"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:03:58","slug":"windows-11-how-to-fix-persistent-update-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/windows-11-how-to-fix-persistent-update-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11: How To Fix Persistent Update Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-2461994106\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Recently I experienced an issue with my Windows 11 installation whereby an update was stuck in one of those interminable loops&#8230; install\/undoing changes\/retry\/install\/undoing changes, on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I tried all the usual fixes, including resetting Windows Update components, renaming the SoftwareDistribution and catroot2 folders, etc., and all the while sfc \/scannow is reporting zero system file corruptions. I even restored an earlier image backup but, to my surprise, the problem persisted.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing worked, so I ended up trying the Windows 11 in-place repair installation that&#8217;s available via Settings &gt; System &gt; Recovery &gt; Fix problems using Windows Update &gt; Reinstall now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows-Update-Repair-Setting.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149118\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows-Update-Repair-Setting.png\" alt=\"windows-update-repair-setting\" width=\"571\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows-Update-Repair-Setting.png 571w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows-Update-Repair-Setting-350x203.png 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Windows-Update-Repair-Setting-150x87.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mentioned in another article, <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/new-windows-11-auto-repair-feature\/\">Windows 11 QMR<\/a>, <\/span>that I am generally sceptical of Windows repair and troubleshooting features, but I am happy to report that this one worked a treat. It reinstalls Windows, including the troublesome update, leaving all settings and installed programs intact. So, when it completes, you are back where you started from, minus the initial problem.<\/p><div id=\"daves-235829168\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Be warned, this process is lengthy\/time-consuming &#8211; but, in my case anyway, well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"daves-1555879067\" class=\"daves-after-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I experienced an issue with my Windows 11 installation whereby an update was stuck in one of those interminable loops&#8230; install\/undoing changes\/retry\/install\/undoing changes, on and on. I tried all the usual fixes, including resetting Windows Update components, renaming the SoftwareDistribution and catroot2 folders, etc., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10797],"tags":[1546],"class_list":["post-149117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how","category-win11","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149184,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149117\/revisions\/149184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}