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Can I safely cancel a windows update mid download without damaging PC?
To clarify, I just wanted to reinstall some audio drivers through Windows, and as I was doing that It seems I chose both the audio software components AND Windows 11 by accident.. By the time I realized my error I was already at two percent download and had to restart my machine to install said audio drivers.
After restarting my computer, I decided to try to kill the entire download process by stopping the Windows Update service through service.msc, it seemed to do the trick. However, I'm concerned that I might've ended up corrupting my Windows install or something by doing this. This was done specifically while it was still in the download progress and before reaching the blue screen install phase.
Can anyone answer my query?