KB5034441 0x80070643 error despite no WinRE volume

Well, increasing the size of the recovery partition is a bit of a problem if you don't even have one and don't want to create one, which was the whole point of this thread.

Now we all have to become IT experts, with the abilities to follow their cryptic command sets to repair what they broke on our PCs. Got it.

lintek25475 said:

Now we all have to become IT experts, with the abilities to follow their cryptic command sets to repair what they broke on our PCs. Got it.

What's worse is that if your WinRE volume is to the RIGHT of your Windows volume -- or if you don't even have a WinRE volume -- their instructions won't work, and you'll have no idea why. Make no mistake, it's because they don't care a whit about their customers. None of this user suffering is a mistake; it's pure choice. You could even call it malice.

My solution was to update to Win11. I don't regret it, except that I hate the Win11 taskbar, and no, I'm not going to run oft-cited crapware to "fix" it.

What's funny is that even after updating to Win11, the KB5034441 still appeared for me, and it even continued to reference "Windows 10". That was the case for at least a couple days after I was already on Win11. What a joke!

And even though I was on Win11 23H2, I was still offered an "update" to 22H2. I created a thread on ElevenForum about it. Those "updates" went away and now everything seems fine -- except for that god-awful taskbar.

Unfollowing. Good luck out there.