

In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options. To access your System Restore points, press Win + R to open the Run dialog box. We’ll try to download the update again later. On the Security tab, click the Trusted Sites icon. From here, type sysdm.cpl SystemProperties and click OK. In the System Properties window, click System Restore. Users have also reported the following error messages: In the System Restore window, click Next, then select a Windows Restore point before your failed update. The error code may vary and it’s possible that the installation problem is because of corrupted Windows Update files. To fix the problem, you’ll need to use the Media Creation Tool to manually redownload the previous update (December 2020 Update) and install the January patch again.Īt the moment, January 2021 update is not available via the Media Creation Tool, but that will hopefully change towards the beginning of February. Usually, if windows update does not show any update, there is no need to install. Automatic system repair and Blue Screen of DeathĪfter applying Windows 10 KB4598242 and KB4598229, some users are also reporting that their devices start in “automatic repair” mode. However, if there is any record of failure of the update, we can try manually download and install it. Please disable your security software\antivirus software at the same time. “I got an “Automatic Repair” boot loop issue with this update on Lenovo T14 AMD. I have tracked down the issue to update KB4598229. Immediate boot failure and reset without any BSOD or any other error. It just boots me into the recovery environment after failing the last boot,” one user noted on Reddit. Others have also reported the same problem on Microsoft’s answer forums. Using DISM in the Command Prompt via the recovery environment seems to be solving the problem for some users. In addition to automatic repair boot loop, some users have also reported Blue Screen of Death bug with “bad pool caller” error. This and KB2538242 which is described exactly the same but for C++ 2005 not. “The system gets stuck in BSOD bad pool caller and the update needs to be rolled back before the system can boot properly.

install the problem KB update and hopefully stop this happening any more. Windows keeps trying to install the update without success,” one user noted on the Feedback Hub. In some cases, File Explorer search bar also becomes unresponsive, along with audio issues reported as well. This has been a normal trend for some Windows 10 updates throughout 2020, and manually reinstalling the update could resolve the problem.
