Windows 10 automatically installs the missing updates but sometime you may face problems in the automatic update installation. This can be caused by bugs, so in this article, we will teach you how you can fix Windows 10 Automatic Update Problems.
Here are seven troubleshoots to fix the issue Windows 10 Automatic Update Problems:
- Checking Antivirus
- Changing Windows Updates Settings
- Free storage
- Remove USB storage Device
- Run Windows updates troubleshooter
- Reset Windows Components Updates
- Disable Proxy
1) Checking Antivirus
In many cases, an antivirus might be interfering with your operating system and causing various problems with Windows 10 updates.
To fix this issue, we recommend you disable antivirus features and check if it helps. If it does not, then you need to disable your antivirus altogether. In some cases, you might even have to remove the antivirus from your operating system.
If the deleting or removing antivirus resolves your issue, then you need to consider turning to a different security software.
2) Changing Windows Updates Settings
Here are the steps on how to the evolving windows updates settings to fix Windows 10 automatic updates problems:
- Launch the Settings application.
- Tap Window + I key to quick launch.
- When the settings launched, visit the “Updates and Security” option.
- Move to the “Advance option.”
- Here you need to disable “Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows” choose.
- Bottom down and move to the “Delivery Optimization” option.
- Find “Allow downloads from other PCs” disable it.
3) Free storage
- Tap Windows + S key and enter “disk cleanup.”
- Select “Disk cleanup” in the list appear on your screen.
- Choose system drive and then tap on it.
- Now “Disk cleanup” will scan your derive; this may take some seconds, so you need to wait.
- When the “Disk cleanup windows launched here, you can view a list; then, you need to choose the files that you wish to remove.
- Tap OK.
4) Remove USB storage Device
There are some devices that can interfere with Windows 10 updates causing automatic updates. To fix this issue, we recommended that you need to disconnect all the device storage into your computer and then verify the issue resolve.
5) Run Windows updates troubleshooter
- Launch settings application and visit the “Updates and Security” option.
- Choose “Troubleshoot in the left panel and then choose “Windows Updates” in the list that appears on your screen.
- Tap the “Run Troubleshooter” option.
6) Reset Windows Components Updates
- Tap Windows + X key to launch Window + X menu.
- Select “Command Prompt or PowerShell” in the appeared list.
- When the command Prompt launched, you need to enter the following command one by one:
- net stop wuauserv
- net stop cryptSvc
- net stop bits
- net stop msiserver
- Ren C:WindowsSoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
- Ren C:WindowsSystem32catroot2 Catroot2.old
- net start wuauserv
- net start cryptSvc
- net start bits
- net start msiserver
- After this all running command, your windows updates parts will reset and resolve the issue.
7) Disable Proxy
Here are the steps on how to disable proxy to fix Windows 10 automatic updates problems:
- Launch the Settings application.
- Choose “Network and Internet.”
- Move to the “Proxy” in the left panel, and in the right panel, you need to disable entire options.
Blair Lennon is a Internet Security expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, she has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as webroot.com/safe.
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