Your Device Is at Risk Because It’s out of Date & Missing Important Security & Quality Updates – MajorGeeks

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Some might suggest you here, but we don’t think you should create a restore point of Windows while it’s not working correctly.

1: Click the Retry Button

Let’s address the elephant in the room. Windows is suggesting you click on Retry. Odds are you already tried this so let’s move on.

2: Check Windows Updates Settings

It’s possible you (or a third-party app) disabled or paused your Windows Updates. While the settings seem to change continually, click on Advanced in Windows updates. Poke around here and be sure nothing is stopping your updates. It might be worth checking your restart options and active hours as well.

3: Reboot

We have repeatedly found that a reboot will almost always “unstick” Windows Updates. Windows Updates will scare some people off from with a message warning you not to reboot. If we had a buck for every time we rebooted regardless of that message; we’d be in the Bahamas permanently. Instead, we’re here rebooting and you should too.

4: Run the Windows Update Troubleshooter

Download and click on the . Follow the prompts, however, note there’s are a couple of advanced options when you begin. The first is to run as administrator, and we recommend you turn that on as often you will be asked to later anyhow. The second option will apply repairs automatically and is on by default so we’d leave that alone.

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