New cumulative update, new issues for Windows 10 users

Mar 21, 2017 06:09 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft published Windows 10 cumulative update KB4015438 a few hours ago in order to fix some critical issues introduced with the previous cumulative update KB4013429, but it turns out that users are once again experiencing some difficulties getting this installed.

There are users out there complaining that cumulative update KB4015438 takes ages to install and we can confirm that this thing also happened on a testing system at Softpedia, even though everything went smoothly on all the others.

Basically, what is happening with this cumulative update is that it appears to freeze at a certain moment during the install, though the process continues in the background, only that it takes substantially more time to complete.

Takes a while, even on top configurations

Posts on reddit confirm that this cumulative update takes longer to install than you’d normally expect, but fortunately, reports of failed installs are still very limited at this point.

“It was installing for 40 minutes on my Surface 3, with 4Gb RAM,” one user explains. “After waiting like 20 minutes it finally got to a percentage and self restarted. Now 100% and fully installed. This update takes a while, even on an SSD,” another one adds.

So although it might seem like the update freezes during the install, you should not reboot your system, as the process is still expected to complete even though it takes longer than usual.

Microsoft hasn’t said a single thing about this problem with the most recent cumulative updates, but it’s becoming more like a pattern, as KB4013429 also experienced similar problems during the install but eventually completed the process for most users.

On the good side, it appears that this new cumulative update does fix the crashing issue experienced by Windows DVD Player and other third-party apps using MPEG-2 libraries, so this is really a must-have for Windows 10 users whose computers experienced such bugs.