Win Update stalls at 44% download. and never completes. This is the only server on this small office network; PCs on this network can successfully run Windows Updates.
Any advice is appreciated.
Steps I have tried:
1 (tried this twice)
Reset Windows update components.
Resetting Windows Update Components will fix corrupt Windows Update Components and help you to install the Windows Updates. Please follow the below steps to reset the Windows Updates Components manually:
Press Windows Key + X on the keyboard and then select “Command Prompt (Admin)” from the menu.
Stop the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. To do this, type the following commands at a command prompt. Press the “ENTER” key after you type each command.
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
Now rename the SoftwareDistribution and Catroot2 folder. You can do this by typing the following commands in the Command Prompt. Press the “ENTER” key after you type each command.
ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old
Now, let’s restart the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. Type the following commands in the Command Prompt for this. Press the ENTER key after you type each command.
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver
Type Exit in the Command Prompt to close it.
Rebooted.
Ran Win Upd, but updates failed to download, stalled at 4%. Subsequent attempts, updating stalled at 40 to 44%.
2
Ran Windows Update Troubleshooter. Resulting messages was "service registration is missing or corrupt. Fixed." - did not help
3
Downloaded standalone for one of the updates found, from
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4589210. Cycled on "copying to Windows Update Cache" for 20 minutes, but never completed.
4
I used Get-WindowsUpdateLog to create windowsupdate.log. Lots of entries, but not easy to read.
5
sfc /scannow found nothing to correct.