Home windows 11 and Home windows 10 have simply obtained an replace that smooths over the Home windows replace course of itself, and we’ve obtained our fingers tightly crossed that this might remedy a very annoying and long-standing bug.
Neowin (opens in new tab) noticed that Microsoft Replace Well being Instruments is now being piped to Home windows 11 (21H2, 22H2) and Home windows 10 (21H2, 22H2) PCs as patch KB4023057 (a compulsory computerized replace).
Within the support document (opens in new tab) for KB4023057, Microsoft tells us that: “On Home windows shopper units, this replace helps remediate clean functioning of Home windows Replace.”
Now, the difficulty right here is that Microsoft doesn’t elaborate past that easy assertion. We don’t know precisely what tinkering has gone on beneath the hood right here, and we’re left to guess at what may need been applied.
So, let’s simply do this – hazard a guess. Now, bearing firmly in thoughts that that is only a shot in the dead of night on the hypothesis entrance, our hope is that this may simply be a remedy for the well-known replace set up failure bugs which have persevered for a very long time now.
That is the place you try to put in the most recent Home windows 11 (or 10) cumulative replace and it simply fails to work with no clarification aside from a rubbish error message that tells you nothing. It simply leaves you watching a meaningless string of hexadecimal (equivalent to error code ‘0x80070103’ – actual useful).
Evaluation: Hope springs everlasting
Our pondering right here is that as a result of Microsoft particularly says that this replace helps with the ‘clean functioning’ of the Home windows Replace course of, that means it’s about stability and reliability. Versus it being about, say, sooner updates (a subject Microsoft has made guarantees about up to now).
As a result of that is about the way in which updates truly operate or work, this provides us hope that simply possibly it’ll sort out that vast thorny drawback of them not working with these gobbledegook error messages. Or even when it doesn’t stamp out these set up failures, it could a minimum of reduce on them (as we see a number of these experiences time and time once more with new Home windows updates).
No matter this does, we should always see extra dependable Home windows updates in some method. Even when it simply helps to resolve circumstances the place a brand new patch isn’t provided to a PC, to take one other widespread error (one which we’ve seen reported earlier at this time, in reality, together with complaints {that a} recent Home windows 10 replace has damaged some printers).