Error: Windows 10 update failed. Solution: pretend it didn’t happen.
A new sneaky bug has made its way on Windows 10 machines, seemingly affecting an important update. But Microsoft is saying you shouldn’t worry about it, literally.
Windows updates are always somewhat of a hassle. It’s quite often that unexpected things occur after an update, and Windows users are used to a seemingly innocuous update knocking things over in passing.
Now, one of the latest updates (KB5057589), which is the Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2 April update, brings an interesting bug that may stress you out when you see it. The update started rolling out recently, on April 8 and is focused on the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), aimed at applying Safe OS Dynamic update to advance Windows recovery features.
Despite Microsoft’s best intentions though, some unfortunate users have been encountering an annoying 0x80070643 error when installing an update, with an „ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE“ message accompanying it.
Yep, this potentially means one of Windows 10’s most important tools for protecting your data is failing to install. And if this has you worried you will find an unbootable system not too long after, well, you should relax, at least according to Microsoft.
Microsoft just wants you to ignore the bug.
