Wednesday 29 July 2015

Windows 10 update not working - disable AVG = fix?? Maybe...

Hi,

Just a quick post but I wanted to get this up because I think I've got round my windows 10 update issue and possibly this might help someone else?

So I've been struggling with updating windows 10 this evening. It has not been automatically updating, so I gave it time, I waited for the notification from Microsoft which never came.

Seemingly windows update just wasn't finding the windows 10 update.

This post at Venture beat seemed to be the solution:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

But I still couldn't get it to work.

Then I tried disabling AVG anti-virus... and now it's downloading...

I don't know why this seems to have worked but if anyone else is struggling to get windows 10 updated as well and you have AVG then try temporarily disabling it and then running through the steps on the above link.

Best of Luck!



** Important Update**

I think the old Cisco VPN client is causing issues. My upgraded has succeeded but I've lost all my network connections. They show in device manager but nowhere else, so no network access, internet access etc.

If you are doing the upgrade and have the VPN client installed I would strongly recommend uninstalling it first.

I'm not 100% sure if this is the reason but I'm not taking the risk on the next PC I upgrade!