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Full PC Backup Software
I am looking for software to make a complete backup of my PC to my external hard drive. I had Acronis and it failed me when I needed it, so that is out. Anyone using something that they can suggest I...
This is just an idea, but if you don't have considerable data and time tied up into what's going on with your updates right now and you have plenty of Bonus Bytes data and the time, you might want to look into downloading a new copy of Windows 8.1 from Microsoft and performing a fresh install with that (if it's different from whta they did with the remote session). When I was having all of the problems with my Windows 8.1 updates and installed the freshly downloaded copy it worked very well, though I had to install two files (one required prerequisites) after the fresh OS installation in order to be able to perform normal updates, but they were just the June 2016 Update Client and the July 2016 Update Rollup (and the prerequisites for the latter). Once those were installed the updates went perfectly.
I can't guarantee that this will solve your update problems and such, but it may help. Of course, again, this takes more data and more time, unfortunately.
GabeU, on one of the remote sessions they did download a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 and they still won't work. The remote session yesterday resulted in the same errors when downloading updates. I just don't know what is wrong and apparantly neither does Microsoft. The last guy told me a upgrade to Windows 10 would fix it. I am just not sure about that though. I am still trying to decide if I want to do that or not. (SMH)
Ricky... What error codes are you seeing exactly...? I just spent most all night getting two Server 2016 Standard systems to connect and start their updates...
The error code I just got was 8024402F
HAH I GOT THAT LAST NIGHT ALL NIGHT LOL.... I spent MANY hours trying to troubleshoot that one...
It boils down to...
M$ update servers are too busy servicing everyone else...
OOORRRR
IPv6 is causing issues, disable it, this solved the issue for me strangely... It wanted to use IPv6 but couldn't.
OOORRRR
Check the "advanced" update options and make sure that your not trying to grab updates for other microsoft products, this solved it for a few.
There are other things to try, but those three are the simplest and stupidest ones that can solve the issue.
