Windows 10 update

giraffe69

The latest update (1803) has installed fine on one desktop and one laptop but is stubbornly refusing to update on a Lenovo 700 laptop. The problem is that at 49% of the way through it declines to complete until Avira AV is removed. Avira has never been on this machine! Looking on Google reveals a range of possible solutions from waiting for Microsoft to fix the problem to open heart surgery.

Has anyone else had this problem and been able to fix it? I've got as far as looking for and failing to find two or three files which might cause this block.

neilmcl

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/update-10-wants-me-to-remove-avira-antivir-how/b037c5f8-1979-4d6a-8290-c807c994461c

victor2

Unless you desperately need the update, you can run wushowhide (just google it) and prevent that update installing. I used it to sort out a couple of bricked machines when Microsoft updates nobbled them over the processor "bugs" issue.
1803 has nothing of use to most people. I installed it and decided to make an image backup using "Back Up and Restore (Windows 7)" to my NAS drive. It repeatedly failed. I then found the same problem reported on a Microsoft forum and a moderator commented that it is a known problem and that MS have no intention of fixing it, as they are phasing out the Back Up and Restore as well as File History in future releases. Don't know how much truth there is in that, but I'm trying other freeware backup utilities in anticipation. File History is rubbish IMO, but the Windows 7 tool they kept in Win 10 is good - so they're killing it.

dogmaryxx

Try runningthe batch file that's available for download here to find file/folder blocking update.

giraffe69

neilmcl wrote: »

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/update-10-wants-me-to-remove-avira-antivir-how/b037c5f8-1979-4d6a-8290-c807c994461c

Thanks but as per my OP Avira has never been installed on the machine so this won't help.