[Billthedrill]

I had a similar issue. Microsoft recommends a couple of things: first, download the Media Creation Tool - this is a link: Media Creation Tool. First, try to do a clean update from that tool. That will entail renaming the database that keeps your update history and starting clean. If that does not work, then use the Download capability of that app to download an installation ISO - if you put it on a USB flash drive it will become bootable. Do not boot from this drive, run Setup and install the 1703 version of the OS that resides there, selecting "keep existing data files". Warning: this is a 10 GB download (and I was doing it on a metered connection$$$!) This also picks up your licensing information from the existing installation. Do NOT slick the disk and start over (that's REALLY a last resort) unless you have backed up your data and have your license number handy.

Hope this helps.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I actually burned an installation disk, but the info seemed a bit contradictory, and I was worried about bricking a perfectly functional setup.

I don’t understand your comments about the licensing info — as far as I can tell, I have what MS calls a “digital license” which is lodged in the UEFI/BIOS data, because I took the upgrade path from a licensed Windows 8 installation.

I did keep existing personal data—that was the option in between trying to keep apps and keeping nothing, and I used the media creation tool.

[onyx]

I don’t understand any of this but Windows continues to bother me with a new update that must have come out sometime around Thanksgiving.

It continues to remind me almost daily and gives me the option of choosing another time for the installation up to 3 days later, which I continue to take. The update says it will “take quite a while” and doesn’t tell me what it entails.

I don’t know what to do about it.

[EVO X]

I had trouble updating a relatives Win 10 to 1709. It would download the update but fail to install. I don’t remember the error code. I got it to update by using the Reset Windows Update Agent. I had to manually rename the SoftwareDistribution folder in the Windows directory. Saved me from having to do a clean install.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Reset-Windows-Update-Agent-d824badc