Thank you Kyhi. I disabled Defender on the file, extracted it and no further problems with Trojan warnings.

I started to read the PDF help file and it is 48 pages as you know. In the past (using...

Thank you kindly for letting me know. Downloading is not actually the issue though. I have downloaded the file successfully, but when I try to open the file with 7-Zip I get blocked by Windows...

After downloading the Win10XPE_2021-01-16.7z file (from...

Yes, for me, the VPN wasn't the obvious issue to consider either, but after realizing that it was the problem I remember having issues in the past accessing certain things when on VPN. So it is a...

Thank you. It looks like all is good now after it added a few updates and did a reboot, see below.

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Perhaps in the future, if someone else has a WU issue, you can ask if they are running...

Something you just said about network reset tiggered a thought and perhaps led me to the problem. I also saw that message before, but figured a reboot would do a network reset anyway and had figured...

Thank you. Below are screen shots from Hard Disk Sentinel, as well as Crystal Disk, which is what I normally use for checking disk health.

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I see now about the ISO...

Thank you again.

Attached is a screen shot from the troubleshooter report.

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After I ran it, I did a reboot and then ran WU again and still no success.

I tried running the Media...

Thanks again. I checked WU update history and some successful updates were made 1 day ago on the 28th. And at that time I was already getting the troubling notification in the task bar I mentioned in...

Sounds good, thank you. Is there any simple perhaps way to fix my current build so it can upgrade normally via Windows update?

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I think my hardware is OK to handle the...

Thank you for your great and detailed update.

Before I make a decision on the various options you suggested, I was curious if you feel I should stick with 1803 or should I upgrade to 1903?

By...

I am running Windows 10 Pro, Version 1803, Build 17134.885

Over the last few days I constantly have a notification appear in the task bar indicating that my device is missing important updates....

Thank you Winuser. I just ran bcdboot C:\Windows from the command prompt as Admin and it worked. Brilliant! Thanks again. All is back in order.

UPDATE: Great, I used the Windows 10 Recovery Tools Bootable Rescue Disk to create drive images of the Windows 7 and Windows 10 installs both with Macrium and Acronis. So I have 2 drive images for...

I just created the Windows 10 Recovery Tools Bootable Rescue Disk and I booted with it just to test and make sure the disc is working before going any further.

Wow, Cool stuff! It looks like it...

Thanks. That's good advice. I'll make one of those bootable flash drives as you suggested with the Windows 10 recovery tools. Then I'll make 2 different drive images of each install, one using...

Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. The only program I am having trouble reinstalling on the new OS at the moment is iTunes. But I also want to keep the old OS install handy for the next 90...

I installed Windows 10 on Drive D with the plan to replace my Windows 7 installation on Drive C once I get all my programs fully installed and configured on the new Windows 10 install.

I'm nearly...