Posted February 15, 201311 yr FPCH Admin My system's SSD suddenly died, so after restoring from an image taking a few months ago, I'm re-downloading lots of Windows Updates (50+ so far) All have downloaded and installed fine except one: Security Update for Windows 7 xor x64-based Systems (KB2799494). Eight times now, it has failed with error 80070490. I have tried the following to no avail: - Microsoft's Fix It Tool - the System Update Readiness Tool (Checkur.exe) - booting from my installation DVD then choosing Repair (failed because it wanted to be started from within Windows) - repairing via my installation DVD from within Windows (failed because an update was preventing it from running) - running sfc / scannow (no errors found). Apart from this one update, the system is behaving fine! Can anyone please suggest what I should be doing next? With 2-3 levels of firewall proteciton between my computers and the internet, I'm not really concerned about hacking so don't care about this particular update - but the update seems to be half installed (ie the SHUTDOWN icon displays also the a exclamation mark / alert. Thanks in advance. J View this thread Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
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