As useful as the patchday is, Windows updates do not always run smoothly. Cumulative updates cannot be installed for some users; instead, only an error code appears.
In the last patch days it happened again and again that updates could not be installed. Windows then reacts with a succinct message that there were problems and the update could not be installed. There are also cryptic error messages with error codes 0x80073701 or 0x800f0988. Microsoft has one here Workaround what to do if this problem occurs repeatedly.-
To do this, you have to open a new command line as administrator and execute the following command there: dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup. Let Windows work for a moment and when the command succeeds, restart your system. Now you can try again to apply the updates.
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