Ciao DirectX100,
I'm Ugo, a Microsoft Independent Advisor willing to help other Microsoft customers.
Regarding your question, you can try one of the methods described below in respective order (please skip the ones you already tried).
1) UPDATE ASSISTANT
As a first troubleshooting option, please try updating through update assistant (use Update now and, if not working, Update tool -Download tool now):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...
2) RUN WINDOWS UPDATE TROUBLESHOOTER
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402732...
3) MANUAL UPDATE THROUGH CATALOG
If the above doesn't work, please find the updates on the Catalog and manually download and install them:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx
If this doesn't work, here is a list of several troubleshooting options.
4) RESET WINDOWS UPDATE
4.1 RESET WINDOWS UPDATE MANUALLY
a) Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> right click on Command Prompt -> select "Run as Administrator". Type net stop wuauserv to stop Windows Update Service.
Wait till you get : The windows update service was stopped successfully. " (DO NOT CLOSE COMMAND PROMPT).
b) - Go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
- Delete all files in "DataStore" folder
- Delete all files in "Download" folder.
c) In the Command prompt window, type net start wuauserv to start Windows Update service.
Restart your computer and try to get update again (this should fix the issue permanently).
If you are unable to reset Windows Update manually:
4.2 RESET WINDOWS UPDATE WITH A SCRIPT
https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2015/12/window...
If none of the above works:
5) ALTERNATIVE ADVICES
Please find alternative advices in the below articles (please discard what already done above):
https://www.lifewire.com/when-windows-update-ge...
https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2017/10/upgrad...
https://windows10.help/blogs/entry/23-troublesh...
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Please let me know if this helped somehow.
Ciao
Ugo