TIL that at least in 2026, if a Windows non feature update takes more than 15 minutes to restart, the Windows system will revert the update.
Posted by jhs0108@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments
The important line is this:
This issue occurs because the Trusted Installer service did not finish the installation process within the default time-out period of 15 minutes.
I'm speechless.
headcrap@reddit
You haven't truly lived unless you waited for 2016 to apply updates.
bcredeur97@reddit
2016 was so bad lol
meatballwrangler@reddit
I have about a dozen of these fuckers left in my environment and I hate every last one of them
SpudzzSomchai@reddit
No. That is time you will never get back.
AcidBuuurn@reddit
How long do you think it should be allowed? 30 min? 6 hours? I've installed thousands of updates on slow computers and haven't run into this problem that I can remember.
I'm just glad there is a mechanism to roll back failed updates.
GallowWho@reddit
Like 10 years ago at my first gig working at geeksquad we were leaving windows laptops to update overnight.
Someone should have just implemented WSUS there, would have saved a lot of time.
jhs0108@reddit (OP)
So have I. This seems like a newer behavior. We had this kill patching of AVDs in our environment.
zrad603@reddit
I remember a few years ago, with my Windows 10 desktop at work, I had an update fail and revert, and then try to install it again every time I rebooted. I had to completely disable updates (which wasn't as easy as it should be) and a week or two later when I wasn't as busy I nuked it from orbit and started fresh.
Electrical_Arm7411@reddit
That’s a horrible explanation of a “cause.” It should explain why the trusted installer process is hanging within the default 15-minute timer.
The work-around is also lazy: Extend the timeout period. Sheesh
jhs0108@reddit (OP)
My only possible explanation is that this is them trying to push more expensive cloud compute tiers and upgrades of hardware.
The OS doesn’t show you this and asking end users to not only use the registry but change permissions on the registry