

The first step is launching a Command Prompt window with administrator rights. Microsoft, however, says there’s a workaround for this issue and anyone can use it as long as they are logged in with an administrator account. In other words, no matter how many times you try to install the same update again and again, it keeps failing and there’s not much you can do about it. Naturally, the first thing that most people do is try to install the update once again, but as many discovered, this doesn’t make any difference. In most of the cases, the error codes come alongside the following message: Updates Failed, There were problems installing some updates, but we'll try again later

The software giant has provided guidance for users running Windows 10 version 1809 and version 1903 and hitting one of the two said problems. On the other hand, if you recently encountered errors 0x80073701 and 0x800f0988 when installing the latest cumulative update, you might be in luck. Updates that failed to install aren’t something entirely new, as similar problems have been encountered with many other cumulative updates that Microsoft released in the previous months.įixing these failed installs isn’t something very straightforward, pretty much because Microsoft rarely acknowledges them. Unfortunately, issues experienced either during or after the installation of cumulative updates have become something rather common on Windows 10, and living proof is the very first cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1909 (November 2019 Update) that fails to install for some.
