KB5003173 CU Windows 10 2004 19041.985, 20H2 19042.985, 21H1 19043.985 Win Update

Whackbag · 12 May 2021

Yeah i couldn't get this update to install, it fails on reboot then rolls back...i also have edge uninstalled.

xips · 12 May 2021

I just transitioned from 1909 to 2004 due to ms induced PTSD. MS update is my trigger. I have a less than 1 yr old borked print quality Brother laser printer that automagically went bad after an ms update this year.

So far, so good. The new adventure begins.

jimbo45 · 12 May 2021

IronZorg89 said:

No problem installing this update on my production machine. So far, I cannot complain. No issue either with outlook which is working fine. Maybe because I have a subscription with Microsoft 365.

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Office 2019 still working fine on this release even with update.

Cheers
jimbo

RichardC · 12 May 2021

D & I normal. Ran sfc and dism, no problems came up. It did take 30 minutes.

flhthemi · 12 May 2021

I have a Dell XT3 with an SSD. It runs 24/7 because it has MySql database for my Kodi installs. This morning all my Kodi installs were crashed. The Dell was a black screen power was on. Tried moving mouse, it was dead too. So I shut it off, pulled the plug and cat5. Then removed the battery and then inserted the battery. Hooked all connections back up. Powered it on and there was the countdown screen. It booted but the mouse was still dead. I pulled the battery on it too. It came alive and the Dell finished booting into Windowz. So I'm thinking there must have been an update and ran winver. Sure nuff. There was and it locked up my Dell for whatever reason. It's running fine so far but I backed up my database, just in case. :)

Then I go open the lid on my Toshiba P855 laptop. It boots just fine. So I go to check updates and there it tells me there was an error and we'll try again later.....so I said TRY NOW butt head. It updated, its fine. Guess I'll go see what the others do now.

Sheesh, it's alwasy somethin'

dalchina · 12 May 2021

Well, you have Pro, so if you wish, for example, you can set updates to Notify using Group Policy- that way you can look to see what it is, then decide when you want to download the offered update(s). In fact you could simply not receive any updates for the lifetime of that build like that.

Farvatten · 12 May 2021

CountMike said:

Progress bar was always erratic. I love it when it stays on 100% but still furiously downloading and writing to disk for many minutes.

This Download 100% head fake has been going on now for a year and unnecessarily gives users the sense that's something is stuck. Although by now it would appear most have gotten use to it.

It's more an issue with users who have low ISP bandwidth, even more so as coincidentally Microsoft has for the last year been throttling my CU's in half on both platforms, disregarding my Settings > Update & Security > Delivery Optimization > Advanced Options, where I have my bandwidth set at 'Absolute' with No Limits and Percentage is unchecked. ( Thinking more about this now, I may check this % box next time and set it to 100% and see if that makes a difference).

Anyway I have a Heads Up display on my desktop with a histogram of my Up and Down internet traffic and what I've seen religiously, is that when Windows Update says 100% it's barely 50% finished. For those with blazing internet speed of course this is hardly a gulp of coffee, but at 4Mbps then cut in half it means what use to take 20 minutes is now 40. So I'm left staring at Download 100% for a good 20 minutes, which for those unaware of this issue, is more than enough to get anxious.

The good news for me is I have Delivery Optimization set*** so I only suffer this 'sluggishness' on the first machine. After it's done, my second machine gets the CU from that one over my LAN at Ethernet speeds.

*** Settings > Update & Security > Delivery Optimization > Allow downloads from other PC's ( ● ) On and (●) PC's on my local network.

On a related note, I've also gotten use to this 100% CU Install head fake, which it does first very quickly, that if I had to guess is the Servicing Stack being installed first, then starts the Install over at %0, where of course it stops for it's ritual lunch & tea breaks at what are now these classic nail biting choke points of 21-24% and 72-74%.

Zardoc · 12 May 2021

jimbo45 said:

Office 2019 still working fine on this release even with update.
Cheers
jimbo

MS fixed the issue yesterday by the back door.

CountMike · 12 May 2021

Farvatten said:

This Download 100% head fake has been going on now for a year and unnecessarily gives users the sense that's something is stuck. Although by now it would appear most have gotten use to it.

It's more an issue with users who have low ISP bandwidth, even more so as coincidentally Microsoft has for the last year been throttling my CU's in half on both platforms, disregarding my Settings > Update & Security > Delivery Optimization > Advanced Options, where I have my bandwidth set at 'Absolute' with No Limits and Percentage is unchecked. ( Thinking more about this now, I may check this % box next time and set it to 100% and see if that makes a difference).

Anyway I have a Heads Up display on my desktop with a histogram of the my Up and Down internet traffic and what I've seen religiously, is that when Windows Update says 100% it's barely 50% finished. For those with blazing internet speed of course this is hardly a gulp of coffee, but at 4Mbps then cut in half it means what use to take 20 minutes is now 40. So I'm left staring at Download 100% for a good 20 minutes, which for those unaware of this issue, is more than enough to get anxious.

The good news for me is I have Delivery Optimization set*** so I only suffer this 'sluggishness' on the first machine. After it's done, my second machine gets the CU from that one over my LAN at 12Gbps Ethernet speeds.

*** Settings > Update & Security > Delivery Optimization > Allow downloads from other PC's ( ● ) On and (●) PC's on my local network.

On a related note, I've also gotten use to this 100% CU Install head fake, which it does first very quickly, that if I had to guess is the Servicing Stack being installed first, then starts the Install over at %0, where of course it stops for it's ritual lunch & tea breaks at what are now these classic nail biting choke points of 21-24% and 72-74%.

Yes, similar is happening with disk utilization, writing a lot even after it says 100% installed. I have another problem, relatively slow internet peeking at 20Mbps but some of that time about 10Mbps. Things could go faster but update is not using much of CPU and RAM resources, still running on single core and couple of GB of RAM. For slower machines that might be good because they could do other things at same time but that is only few % of what my PC has, using full or just more resources update could finish much faster.

sandyt · 12 May 2021

Farvatten said:

It's more an issue with users who have low ISP bandwidth

Since Microsoft started the "enablement" switch to turn on 20H1, 20H2, 21H1 releases..., you are just getting all next feature update download spread out over 6 months time.

So instead of downloading a single 3.6 gigabyte 21H1, you downloaded six 600 megabytes monthly Patch Tuesday updates.

In a way, it is better for people with low ISP bandwidth.