Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB3194798 for v1607 Released (14393.321)

Cumulative Update KB3194798 includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

Improved reliability of Bluetooth and storage file system.

Addressed issue causing printer drivers to not install correctly after installing security update KB317005.

Addressed issue causing sign-in errors if a password is entered incorrectly or a new password doesn’t meet password complexity requirements after installing security update KB3167679.

Addressed issue that required users to log out and log back in before using the application they installed using the Windows installer (MSI).

Improved support for networks by adding new entries to the Access Point Name (APN) database.

Addressed issue that was causing excessive battery drain on Windows 10 Mobile when connected to Wi-Fi.

Addressed issue in which setting up both fingerprint and iris recognition sometimes causes the sign-in to fail on Windows 10 Mobile.

Addressed issue that was causing high CPU usage on Windows 10 Mobile.

Addressed additional issues with multimedia playback, revised daylight saving time, authentication, Internet Explorer 11, and Windows Shell.

Security updates to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, Windows registry, and diagnostics hub.

For more information about the complete list of affected files, see KB3194798.

(via WU History)

If you can’t update it via WU for some reason (it may get stuck at 95% in some systems), you can directly download it from the WU catalog.

Direct Download Links

Update: Some users reported that they could not install the .msu file directly downloaded from the Windows Update catalog. Until MS fixes the issue, you may have to rely on the regular Windows Update to install the CU.

Windows 10 v1607 x86: windows10.0-kb3194798-x86_30ca81056fa468110773767f5b3de65711809c90.msu [421.4 MB]

Windows 10 v1607 x64: windows10.0-kb3194798-x64_8bc6befc7b3c51f94ae70b8d1d9a249bb4b5e108.msu [779.7 MB]

KB3194798 issues reported by users

1. Can’t install KB3194798 update

Some users couldn’t install the update via Windows Update or by running the .msu package directly downloaded from the Windows Update catalog. The download from WU got stuck at 95% or in the early stage. And reportedly, the .msu download didn’t install for some users due to certificate issues.



Microsoft’s KB3194496 PowerShell Script fixes KB3194798 issues?

Running the PowerShell script fix Microsoft created for KB3194496 (14393.222) seems to work for KB3194798 installation problems. Check this post and this at Microsoft Answers.

2. Disk Cleanup says Windows Update Cleanup occupies 3.99 TB

Disk Cleanup showed 3.99 TB (Terabytes) as being occupied by Windows Update Cleanup files for those who could install the update successfully.

kb3194798 3.99 tb disk cleanup

Update: The same thing happened after installing the November Cumulative Update for Windows 10 v1607 KB3200970 (14393.447).

There seems to be a bug somewhere — *perhaps* Disk Cleanup is miscalculating the size of the WinSxS folder by not considering hard links into account. What so ever, 3.99 TB still sounds enormous. The same issue has happened before when using Disk Cleanup. We’re yet to hear what Microsoft has to say about this.

Selecting the item in Disk Cleanup and clicking OK might clean up the entry, but I chose to use DISM instead. I did a component cleanup using DISM, which cleaned up some space and removed Windows Update Cleanup from the list of items to clean up in Disk Cleanup options. That’s because DISM has done the cleanup task.

kb3194798 3.99 tb disk cleanup

Analyze and Cleanup the Component Store using DISM

Command to analyze and report if a component cleanup is required or not – to be run from elevated Command Prompt.

dism /online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore

kb3194798 3.99 tb disk cleanup

And, here is the command to do a component store cleanup.

dism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

kb3194798 3.99 tb disk cleanup

/StartComponentCleanup cleans up the superseded components and reduces the size of the component store. Note that you can’t uninstall updates after using DISM with this command-line parameter.


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Ramesh Srinivasan is passionate about Microsoft technologies and he has been a consecutive ten-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in the Windows Shell/Desktop Experience category, from 2003 to 2012. He loves to troubleshoot and write about Windows. Ramesh founded Winhelponline.com in 2005.

3 thoughts on “Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB3194798 for v1607 Released (14393.321)”

  1. The files on these links appear to have an invalid Digital Certificate, and thus won’t run. I get the same result from the Update Catalog. The problem only seems to affect this particular update file though, other updates download correctly.

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  2. REPLYING:- Its a complete waste of time downloading this update as a standalone package as this too fails to install on W10 v1607 based machines. The fault is with the actual file & update itself it has a bug or several bugs in it.

    **Applies to this: Windows 10 v1607 x64: windows10.0-kb3194798-x64_8bc6befc7b3c51f94ae70b8d1d9a249bb4b5e108.msu [779.7 MB]

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  3. My Computer after install this update have a Disk usage in 100% hapening of 15 and 15 seconds.

    I clear my computer two times to resolve this problem to see that was the update.

    I’m very nervous with this.

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