When you use Windows Update to install a Feature update for Windows 10 or 11, the error code 0x80242016 may appear.
The error code 0x80242016 (“WU_E_UH_POSTREBOOTUNEXPECTEDSTATE”) means “The state of the update after its post-reboot operation has completed is unexpected.”Read more
When you attempt to download the Windows ISO, mainly the Windows 11 ISO, from the official Microsoft ISO download page, the following error occurs, and your download is blocked.Read more
When you attempt to install a Feature Update, the error code 0x80070003 – 0x20008 may appear.
The Setupact.log file may show the following contents:Read more
When you try to upgrade to Windows 11 using Windows 11 Installation Assistant, the error code error code 0xc00000f0 may appear at 79%. Or the setup gets stuck at Step 3 of 3: 99% during installation for more than 6 hours.Read more
When you install a Windows 10/11 Feature Update, the setup process may go until 87% and close automatically with an exception error 0xc0000005 that is recorded in the setup logs. A crash dump file may also be generated.
Setupact.log (in the Panther directory) contains these entries:Read more
A new malware emerged in the 1st week of August 2023 that has infected many computers already. The origin of the malware is yet to be traced, but the malware adds six scheduled tasks, each of which runs rhc.exe, wscript.exe agile2.vbs, ytcheckts.vbs, and php.exe.Read more
When you run the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable setup, the error code 0x80070661 may occur:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable (Arm64) Setup Failed One or more issues caused the setup to fail. Please fix the issues and then retry setup. For more informatin see the log file. 0x80070661 - This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor.
When you try to run Sfc.exe /scannow on Command Prompt to repair the system files, the following error message may appear:
You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility.
This may happen even though you right-click Command Prompt from the Start menu search results, and click Run as administrator.Read more
When you run bcdedit to view the settings in the boot configuration database (BCD), the following error may occur:
The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid.
When you open a troubleshooter from the Settings window in Windows 11, the following error may appear:
ms-contact-support://settings/SettingsPageTroubleshootAudio This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Settings page.