I have Windows 10 Pro version 22H2.
Tonight I was trying to update Windows before pausing for several weeks before patch Tuesday, and encountered the problem described blow.
Almost immediately after I hit the button to resume updates, a message appeared stating: “Your device is missing important security and quality fixes.” See attachment “1 Missing Stuff.”
Now, I’ve been using PCs going back to Windows 95, and don’t remember ever seeing a message about “missing fixes” even before updates started downloading. I occasionally (rarely) seen error messages after a Windows update, usually a message that one of an assortment of updates didn’t take. But these are always remedied by trying again (I’ve never had a persistent problem), and I’ve never seen such a message at the very inception of an update. I don’t even know whether to consider that an “error” message, though I suppose it must be, given the reference to “missing … fixes.”
Anyway, there were (if I recall correctly) 3 updates. Two of them downloaded & installed without a problem, but the third one failed, producing an error message. As to the identity of the update, see Attachment “2 Security Update.” As to the error message, see Attachment “3 Error encountered.”
I hit the retry for that one, got the same message, rebooted, tried again, and got the same error message.
Attachment 3 provides this code: “0x80070643”. I Googled it, and found a variety of relevant web pages, a typical one of which is here: https://www.lifewire.com/fix-error-0x80070643-4691724
It recommends resizing the recovery partition, but only if “you’re seeing the error for an update relating to the Windows Recovery Environment.” I have no idea whether the “Security Update” identified in Attachment 2 relates to “Windows Recovery Environment” – whatever that is. And in any case, I have no idea what I’m doing, so I looked no further.
Can anyone explain what seems to be going on and what I can/should do about it?
Thanks.
