"Paul" wrote in message
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Emrys Davies wrote:


Nothing has changed. The Windows Update continues to fail except for
three which continue to install, over and over again, regardless. The
others continue to fail over and over again. All were acting like that
before we intervened. I know what is wrong it is me trying to put into
action what you have requested with me being totally out of my depth and
I thank you sincerely for being so persistent and patient.

We're not out of options yet.

One question I have, before suggesting new things
to try, is did

"Windows Component Store is Corrupt - Error 80073712"

go away ? Or is that still happening ?

That error is still ever present


If you're still getting that error, then it's possible
other operations will not run or work right. It's important
to fix that.

*******

Write down the failed (looping) KB numbers. They
are likely queued up behind the thing that is really
jammed. Look in Windows Update "history" tab, for the
first one that failed, that never got fixed by a
later attempt to install it.

Let's say KB12345678 is missing. Go to

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx

and type in the failed KB number as "KBxxxxxxx" or so.

The prominent looping number is KB3071756



The search will return candidates. Make sure you grab
the 64 bit one for a 64-bit OS. Click the Download
button. If you see a "Delta" one in the list, ignore.
What you really want to download, is one ending in .msu.

You can double-click the file once it downloads.

I find that SoftwareDistribution problems can sometimes
be bypassed, by manually doing the .msu based installs
instead. Once you fix the one that is actually jamming
up the works, the others sometimes then install with
no further fuss.

I found one likely search result for KB3071756 out of 17 suggestions and it
made an effort to install it after
initializing but it failed saying 'The following updates were not installed
(KB3071756)


You can clean out SoftwareDistribution.

There are scripts for this.

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ate-reset.html

You can instead, also look in Control Panels for
Troubleshooter, and use the Windows Update one for fun.
This is safer, because Microsoft is doing it :-/

https://i.postimg.cc/Hj1gJMGS/troubleshooter.gif

Paul

Done the latter many time and very recently, but without success.

One point of interest: These two updates repeatedly download successfully
and they mostly head the failed ones. They are KB3004375 and KB3031432.
Microsoft Security Essentials KB2310138, which I installed quite recently,
has always been successful but repeated itself several times, but not of
late.