- Patch KB5048239 for Home windows 10 was first deployed in November 2024
- It’s now been put in once more as a part of Microsoft’s patching for January 2025
- Nevertheless, this replace is reportedly putting in itself time and again, and for fairly plenty of Home windows 10 customers it appears
Ever had a Home windows 10 (or Home windows 11) replace that failed to put in? That’s an issue I’ve seen occurs comparatively usually, however a brand new twist on misfiring updates is a patch that retains on putting in itself, regardless of being efficiently put in previously.
That is what’s apparently occurring with Home windows 10, and the replace in query is patch KB5048239, as Neowin reviews.
It’s helpful to cowl the backstory right here, which is that KB5048239 was pushed out to Home windows 10 PCs (on 21H2 and 22H2) in November 2024 (amongst different patches), as a treatment for issues with the WinRE (Home windows Restoration Atmosphere) which themselves have a prolonged historical past.
Nevertheless, final 12 months, KB5048239 failed to put in for some individuals on account of them not having sufficient house of their Home windows 10 restoration partition (a minimal of 250MB is critical).
Microsoft then issued a bunch of recommendation to affected customers and tried to easy out the replace, however evidently Home windows 10 is now making an attempt to ship KB5048239 once more. And once more… and once more… and (you get the thought).
Dean Wortmier tells us on Microsoft’s assist discussion board, Reply’s.com, that: “This explicit replace put in efficiently for me in November 2024, and is making an attempt to put in once more at this time — time and again and over… — every time ‘efficiently.’”
One other grievance comes from Brian Lofthouse: “Hello to you all. I checked my updates this morning and KB5048239 was ready to be put in once more! I run the troubleshooter and it put in once more, I checked ‘View updates’ and it had modified the date from yesterday to at this time! It is sort of a Merry-go-round. I can really feel a migraine approaching!”
These two threads have had 353 individuals click on that they ‘have the identical query’ to present you an thought of the size of the influence right here (on the time of writing). So, this seems to be a problem affecting a good few people working Home windows 10.
Is there any approach out of this mess?
As to a decision for the ‘little replace that wouldn’t hand over,’ the not-so-great information is that there doesn’t seem like one.
No matter persons are making an attempt to do, resembling eradicating the older model of this replace earlier than letting the most recent one for January 2025 set up, doesn’t make any distinction. They’re nonetheless getting KB5048239 putting in time and again. Even these whose WinRE setup is ok (and the partition is massive sufficient) are nonetheless being hit by this debacle, as famous on this thread over on the Ask Woody boards.
Does having this patch put in time and again really matter, although? Will it detrimentally have an effect on your system? Most likely not, however even when this isn’t throwing small spanners into the Home windows 10 works someplace, it’s nonetheless annoying to see the identical replace getting downloaded and put in repeatedly. Those that don’t know what’s occurring right here could assume their PC has some sort of critical bug – or even virus – and perhaps waste a good bit of time making an attempt to diagnose and fathom what’s occurring.
Hopefully Microsoft can have an announcement coming, and I’ve reached out to the corporate to seek out out (I’ll replace this story with any response).
For now, although, about all you are able to do is grin and bear it (or frown and bear it, extra like). One possibility is to pause Home windows 10 updates for so long as you possibly can (with the facet impact that you just gained’t get different updates, after all – which could be unhealthy information in itself). In any other case, it’s only a matter of ready for Microsoft to repair this (we have contacted the corporate for remark), which hopefully will occur pretty quickly contemplating that it is a drawback plaguing a non-trivial variety of Home windows 10 customers, from what I can inform.
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