Windows 11-24H2 installations with certain update statuses can no longer install further updates. Only a manual correction will help.

Last Christmas, a problem with Windows 11 24H2 installations became known that they cannot install further updates if they were installed from an installation medium with certain update statuses. Microsoft has now given up looking for an automated solution to this problem or developing a fix-it tool – The only option available to those affected is manual correction.

Microsoft has confirmed this decision by setting the entry in the Windows Release Health announcements to “resolved”. Specifically, the problem description is that a Windows 11 installation on version 24H2, which was installed from a CD (sic) or USB drive with integrated October or November updates from 2024, can no longer install any further security updates. This also includes media created with the Windows Media Creation Tool at those times. However, installations that have downloaded the updates via Windows Update and applied them do not have this problem.

Windows update dropouts: only manual solution available

The entry on the problem from Microsoft has had the status “resolved” since the end of last week. However, it still only contains the previous workaround as a solution: The problem can be solved by overinstalling with an installation medium that contains at least the security updates from December 2024 – i.e. was created from December 10, 2024 –. Microsoft does not mention a fix-it tool, script or other options, such as registry changes.

Such an updated medium can be created with the Windows Media Creation Tool, which is available on Microsoft’s Windows 11 download website. This either downloads an ISO file that can be transferred to DVD or creates a bootable USB stick with the Windows installation; this should have at least 8 GB of space.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55122353

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Windows-11-24H2-update-problems-Microsoft-gives-up-on-finding-a-solution-10275962.html

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    There was absolutely no reason to bring up that you were coding longer than I was alive other than to imply that your age is a reason why the argument is invalid.

    Funny how you use your age as an argument but see it as entitled when I point out the reverse.

    Calling your operating system “Linux”–when Linux is just the kernel and not the OS–doesn’t really help your argument here.

    I specifically referenced Gnu tools, window managers, etc. What is wrong with you?

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      There was absolutely no reason to bring up that you were coding longer than I was alive

      So since you’ve clearly forgotten, let’s go back in time.

      1. I said Windows should be rewritten from scratch because it has a poor foundation.
      2. You said you should never rewrite large software!
      3. I tell you that I’ve been a developer for decades, and that’s not really true, it’s just the authors opinion, and is entirely predicated on a mistaken supposition.
      4. You get defensive and slap your age down on the table like it’s a big ol’ dick as if you could never be wrong because you’re 60 years old.
      5. I said that I didn’t say that I was older than you. In fact I didn’t mention age at all. I said that the likelyhood of me having been a professional developer for longer than you have been alive is high and you took that to mean as me saying “haha, I’m older so I’m right!”
      6. You misrepresented something your own source said, as something I said, and said it was wrong–which is fucking hilarious to me.
      7. You continue to take everything as a personal attack against you.
      8. Now all of a sudden unless you work for Microsoft you don’t have the ability to have a professional opinion about the subject matter–you posting Spolsky’s word as the word of God despite him having worked for Microsoft for like 4 years over 2 decades ago. lol

      I specifically referenced Gnu tools, window managers, etc. What is wrong with you?

      This is exactly what you wrote;

      I use Linux. There are frequent bugs that require me to type in a command manually to work around.

      I mean Jesus Christ my guy.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 hours ago

        I said Windows should be rewritten from scratch because it has a poor foundation.

        Having never written Windows kernel code, you are in no position to judge the foundation.

        I tell you that I’ve been a developer for decades

        No, you said you have been writing code longer before I was born.

        I have been writing code since before you were born. Does that make my opinion more valid?

        You misrepresented something your own source said,

        The source I lonked clearly explains in detail why code is misread. You handwaved it away with the premise that code might not be misread. With that attitude, memory safety isn’t needed either. Write perfect code and you don’t need to use structured programs. “Don’t do what everyone does because it is extremely hard.” isn’t a valid argument.

        This is exactly what you wrote;

        " It would be insane to claim that all of Linux (I’m also referring to all the gnu tools, window managers etc) should be thrown out and start fresh. "

        I added that in the second sentence because I realized you have never used Linux without it being part of a distro. The first Linux I ran was compiled without being part of any distro. It was for a PRI Gateway when I was working for Vint Cerf on his side project.