{"id":2328,"date":"2023-01-16T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:08:02","slug":"what-to-do-when-a-windows-update-wont-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"What to do when a Windows Update won&#8217;t install"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>cancel installation<br>Open command prompt or PowerShell as Administrator;   sfc \/scannow<br>               the above could take 1-2 hours<br>delete everything in the directory\u00a0<em>C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\Download<\/em><br>restart PC<br>start installation and now it should run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cancel installationOpen command prompt or PowerShell as Administrator; sfc \/scannow the above could take 1-2 hoursdelete everything in the directory\u00a0C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\Downloadrestart PCstart installation and now it should run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}