Home windows 11 and Home windows 10 have simply obtained an replace that smooths over the Home windows replace course of itself, and we’ve obtained our fingers tightly crossed that this might remedy a very annoying and long-standing bug.

Neowin (opens in new tab) noticed that Microsoft Replace Well being Instruments is now being piped to Home windows 11 (21H2, 22H2) and Home windows 10 (21H2, 22H2) PCs as patch KB4023057 (a compulsory automated replace).

Within the assist doc (opens in new tab) for KB4023057, Microsoft tells us that: “On Home windows client gadgets, this replace helps remediate easy functioning of Home windows Replace.”

Now, the difficulty right here is that Microsoft doesn’t elaborate past that easy assertion. We don’t know precisely what tinkering has gone on below the hood right here, and we’re left to guess at what might need been applied.

So, let’s simply try this – hazard a guess. Now, bearing firmly in thoughts that that is only a shot at midnight on the hypothesis entrance, our hope is that this would possibly simply be a remedy for the well-known replace set up failure bugs which have continued for a very long time now.

That is the place you try to put in the most recent Home windows 11 (or 10) cumulative replace and it simply fails to work with no rationalization apart from a rubbish error message that tells you nothing. It simply leaves you gazing a meaningless string of hexadecimal (resembling error code ‘0x80070103’ – actual useful).

Evaluation: Hope springs everlasting

Our considering right here is that as a result of Microsoft particularly says that this replace helps with the ‘easy functioning’ of the Home windows Replace course of, that implies it’s about stability and reliability. Versus it being about, say, quicker updates (a subject Microsoft has made guarantees about previously).

As a result of that is about the best way updates really operate or work, this offers us hope that simply perhaps it’ll deal with that vast thorny drawback of them not working with these gobbledegook error messages. Or even when it doesn’t stamp out these set up failures, it could at the very least reduce on them (as we see plenty of these experiences time and time once more with new Home windows updates).

No matter this does, we must always see extra dependable Home windows updates in some method. Even when it simply helps to resolve instances the place a brand new patch isn’t supplied to a PC, to take one other frequent error (one which we’ve seen reported earlier immediately, in truth, together with complaints {that a} contemporary Home windows 10 replace has damaged some printers).

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