Cannot install update kb2888049

[Hans L]

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

 

[NoelDP]

It's likely that simply installing the update from the standalone will work for you...

32-bit - Download Update for Windows 7 (KB2888049) from Official Microsoft Download Center
64-bit - Download Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2888049) from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

[Hans L]

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

Regards/Hans L

 

[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

 

[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]

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.

 

[Hans L]

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]

It all depends on many things.
How fast your internet is at that time.
How busy the Microsoft server is at that time.
Times well very a little.

Another little secret.
When you reboot after a Windows Update don't do anything on the computer until the hard drive activity light stops going crazy. When it settles down do as you please with your computer.

 

[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

 

[NoelDP]

.NET updates particularly can do a lot of maintenance/optimisation after the reboot - it can be as much as 30 minutes before the system calms down.

 

[Hans L]

Noel, hard to think of not doing anything on the computer until 30 minutes after an update.

Hans L

 

[NoelDP]

There's only two things I definitely avoid doing if possible during that period -
1) Shutdown/restart/reboot
2) System maintenance tasks (CHKDSK/SFC/Defrag/etc)

Otherwise, I just tend to get on with what I'm doing, and accept the temporary slowdown that occurs.

 

[Hans L]

There's only two things I definitely avoid doing if possible during that period -
1) Shutdown/restart/reboot
2) System maintenance tasks (CHKDSK/SFC/Defrag/etc)

Otherwise, I just tend to get on with what I'm doing, and accept the temporary slowdown that occurs.

Oh boy, I install, reboot, then another program (usually an Adobe) has an update, I do that on,e reboot, etc.

What bad things could happen?

Regards,

Hans L

 

[NoelDP]

To be honest, I don't know
It seems to me to make sense to allow one set of updates to totally complete before attempting the next.
In theory, Windows will suspend whatever it's doing gracefully - but there are any number of external factors that could make it stumble.

 

[Hans L]

To be honest, I don't know
It seems to me to make sense to allow one set of updates to totally complete before attempting the next.
In theory, Windows will suspend whatever it's doing gracefully - but there are any number of external factors that could make it stumble.

Okay, the problem is, of course, to know exactly when Windows have finished its update process.

Regards/
Hans L

 

[NoelDP]

which brings us back to the HD indicator light - or TaskManager

 

[Hans L]

which brings us back to the HD indicator light - or TaskManager

Which may blink for a ton of reasons ... not only update-related. And it is very difficult to interpret the processes going on in Task Manager. Generic processes that may indicate a lot of different things.

Regards/Hans L

 

[NoelDP]

Generally, anything to do with TrustedInstaller is WU-related. There are a couple of .NET optimisation processes that tend to continue for quite a while as well.

 

[Hans L]

Generally, anything to do with TrustedInstaller is WU-related. There are a couple of .NET optimisation processes that tend to continue for quite a while as well.

So, TrustedInstaller under Services is what I should look at, until it goes from "Running" to "Stopped"?

What should I look for when it comes to .NET? Processes something or Services something?

Hans L

 

[NoelDP]

No - always look in the Processes list.
TrustedInstaller service runs most of the time anyhow.
If I remember right, the .NET routines are something like 'clr NET optimisation'