Cannot install update kb2888049

Hello:

I have reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and all my applications. All is working well. I have made over a hundred Windows updates. All installed fine, but this one refuses to install:

KB2888049 (first Recommended, now Important). Update is available that improves the network performance of Internet Explorer 11 in Windows)

I have IE 11.0.9600.17591. I get error code 8024200D. I have downloaded and installed the System Update Readiness tool. Did not help. I hid the update, but it came back.

Is it really important, and how would I go about to get it installed (nothing I have read has helped)?

Thank you!

Hans L

Noel, thank you very much. It worked like a charm.

Regards/Hans L

Damn, the update still wants to install via Update. I have to check that it installed okay before (it certainly looked like it).

Yep, in Installed Updates > Microsoft Windows (196) > Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2888049).

So, I know there have been discussions about what to do when an installed update wants to install anyway, but I have not read it. Do you know what I should do?

Regards/
Hans L

Lo and behold, I turned off the computer and the on, and looked for updates, and no updates. So, it fixed itself. All is well.
Thank again, Noel.

Hans L

Layback Bear said:

Well yes and no, it fixed itself.
Many thing have to finish their intended job by using a restart (reboot).
After doing Windows 7 Updates I always reboot whether Windows 7 requests it or not.
Then check again for more Windows 7 Updates. Can't hurt and might help.

I do too.

This time, I did restart after I installed the update, but the puter still showed that there was an update (the same!). So, I turned off the computer and on again, and now, all is well.

When I justed checked for updates manually, it took 50 seconds (and that is shorter than uaual; some times, it takes minutes). Is that normal? I cannot remember that it used to take that long.

Regards,

Hans L

Layback Bear, thanks. I will keep an eye on the 'blinker'. However, Windows normally tells me that it is doing something about the new update both when I turn the computer off (which is that I usually do) and when Windows is starting up again. I thought that when the computer was up and running after that, the update was really finished. But, I will look at the light.

Regards,

Hans L