All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

The latest Microsoft update KB5034441 is crap and repeatably fails with error code 0x80070643.
There is no solution outside of expanding the WinRE recovery partition - a Geeks job.
Microsoft have been inundated with complaints.
Microsoft have said that a fix will be issued in their second Tuesday in February update.
Meanwhile, ignore the failure.
All Windows 10,11 Home and Pro programs have WinRE included and enabled as default.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

I dislike MS updates with a passion. Fine if they want to "fix" things, but it should be optional. Even postponing the updates often doesn't work and they go ahead anyway. I usually know when one is about to happen because everything stops working properly until the update has gone ahead.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Not really an issue I have anymore, W7 only gets defender updates now. ;)

Ya I have heard people havingall kidns of issues over the years from forced updates......


Im surprised no one has figured out a way of blocking them!!

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

They have

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I am guessing they have pulled it as I have not been offered it
4204 is the newest I have installed and nothing left to do

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Same here.;)

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Careful you will be going the way of Dude soon hahaha

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

I might have agreed if W10 & W11 actually added some stunning, useful, "must have" features, but they just dont.

I have to use W10 on my work laptop, it adds nothing useful at all, it actually replaces a the UI with something less useful.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Shame Windows can't update as well as Linux does, quite often my updates don't need a reboot and if it does just one will do it. Occasionally an update requires a programme is restarted but even that isn't forced.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

I know mate I was just pulling ya chain

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Its still being included in updates, get it every time I update, latest 30 January.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

how very odd

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Almost every computer forum is discussing this update failure.
Solutions are proposed, but all require major surgery. OK for Geeks, but a disaster for ordinary users trying to exploit them.

This Microsoft abomination does not stop other updates from installing, it simply fails each time.
So my solution is to ignore its repeated efforts to install on my PC until Microsoft issues a fix on the second Tuesday in February.
I am quite sure that my the absence of this piece of garbage will not spell the death toll to my computer activities.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Mine does automatically, can't say I have noticed anything except very slow loading everything.

Yup and they think its better!!


EDIT:

Its amazing how windows has gone from Win95 to Win11!!

Win95 was user friendly with games,etc....... Win11 is like its not even ones own computer!! (They cant do what they want on it)

[This message has been edited by Dude111 (edited 02-04-2024).]

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Windows 7,10 and 11 are magnitudes better and more secure than Windows 95,98(SE) though...... Just saying.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Who can't?

Tell you something you can not even install steam on your PC let alone play anything other than an out dated flash game
You can not run modern applications.
I dread to think how long it would take you to edit a video.
I imagine you can not play most modern format videos
Your file size is restricted due to a FAT partition table
I could go on all day listing things you can not do on your PC that I can do on mine

I guess Jay it doesnt really matter since I dont do that stuff anyway Mate...

Is filesize restrixted by FAT?? -- How big??

I wanna try DLing one of a biugger size and see if I can??

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

The max file size for FAT32 is 4GB.
Not generally an issue for most people, even now.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

I agree with the second part of that sentence but definitely not the first, it was a complete nightmare getting it to run even commercially produced games on disc.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Not important but max file size is 4GB-1byte or exactly 4,294,967,295 bytes

I know it is pedantic but it is something that always interested me :)

It would make a difference for me. You could not even download or create windows 10 media on it

I can also add for Dude all the things I listed I can do he can not I can also do everything he can do by emulating windows 98 in virtual box or VMWare or DOSbox for that matter

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

My HD movie downloads often run to 25-30Gbyte. I can only transfer them across the home network as most external USB drives are FAT32

The media server is running XP SP3 (Serviio) but the 2TB HDD for these is NTFS.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Why not just format the external USB drives to NTFS?

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

That's too obvious peanut.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Yes, it is. :knock:

As I said, not generally an issue for most people, you are an exception.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

Asking users to apply the complex process of enlarging the WinRE partition space to accommodate this KB503444 update, is preposterous and highly unprofessional by MS. I doubt if one user in every 1,000 know how to do this.

Take the easy way - use MS's own Show/Hide updates tool. After the tool has finished its searches it lists all the pending updates, just tick KB5034441 to hide and the problem is solved. Get the tool from -
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

See Option 1 item 4 to download the MS show/Hide tool to your desktop - wushowhide.diagcab, then simply run it.
KB5034441 has to be listed on your pending updates of course.

Re: All Windows 10 and 11 Users - WinRE Late January Security Update
 

So what has it messed up on w 10:erm: