14 DAY TRIAL // Long-time Windows 10 users certainly know that installing cumulative updates has often been a Russian roulette, as these releases occasionally caused major issues, like broken OS features or failed installs.
However, things have improved substantially in the latest OS feature update, and the May 2019 Update, which shipped some two months ago, came with a nearly flawless experience with cumulative updates.
And while cumulative updates no longer fail to install as often as before, users still encounter small issues here and there every time the software giant pushes new such updates to their Windows 10 devices.
The latest round of cumulative updates landed on July 9 when Microsoft started the July 2019 Patch Tuesday cycle, and as it happens every month, all Windows 10 versions got patched.
Windows 10 version 1903, or the May 2019 Update, received cumulative update KB4507453, which just like the other siblings, included security fixes aimed at vulnerabilities in the OS and other improvements.
For most users, KB4507453 installed just fine, but for others, it ended up asking a reboot repeatedly, despite the update process seemingly coming to an end successfully.
As I described in my original coverage on the KB4507453 reboot issues here, this cumulative update typically appears to install correctly, as per the standard updating process, it asks for a reboot to complete the task.
Everything then works just as expected, with Windows 10 booting back to the desktop normally. However, the same cumulative update then reappears in Windows Update a few minutes after logging in to Windows, once again asking for a reboot.
No matter how many times you restart the computer, KB4507453 keeps coming back asking for another reboot. Microsoft is yet to acknowledge the problem. No similar issues are experienced on the other Windows 10 versions that received cumulative updates on July 9.
Since Microsoft is yet to confirm the bug, there are no recommended workarounds, albeit users who have experienced the issue came up with various advices that could help you avoid being prompted to reboot the device once again.
One of them is simpler than you could think. When it asks for a system reboot, the update shows this message in Windows Update. Most users, however, head over to the Start menu to perform the reboot, so instead of doing this, you should try rebooting the system right from the prompt in Windows Update.
For whatever reason, doing this apparently prevents the cumulative update from asking for a reboot after logging back to the desktop, but again, this isn’t something that works for everyone.
Then, you could just restart the Windows Update service. To do this, click the Start menu and type:
services.msc
And last but not least, some users claim that if you fire up Windows Update just after booting back to desktop and manually checking for updates prevents the cumulative update from showing up once again in the future. Because the update is technically already installed, the manual check shouldn’t retrieve any results, so KB4507453 would be blocked from requesting a reboot at a later time.
Once again, these are all recommendations that may or may not work on your device, but given that Microsoft is yet to acknowledge the problem, it’s really worth giving them a try.
New cumulative updates for Windows 10 are projected to be released later this month, but of course, it’s too early to tell if a fix for this bug would be included or not.
Let us know in the comment box below if you discovered any other workaround for this problem.