Tuesday, 2 April 2024

Windows 10 update KB5034441 fails with error 0x80070643 (how to ignore update)

In January 2024, Microsoft pushed out a broken update to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) that got a couple things wrong:

1) If your WinRE partition didn't have enough space, the update would fail to install.

2) If you didn't have a WinRE partition at all, it would also try to install and fail.

Within a week or two, MS linked to info about how to resize a WinRE partition to address #1 above. As for #2, they suggested you just ignore the failing update.

My system was suffering from #2 and I was tired of seeing the failing attempt so I did a quick search for how to disable a specific update and found an article describing Microsoft's "Show or Hide Updates Tool".

 

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