force win 10 to update ?

[nine mil thrill]

i have my computers off for long periods of time. when i check for updates and find several are pending........how can i makes them install immediately while i have the computer on ? win 10 has a "active hours" setting that will prevent the installation while i am in that time frame. i there a way to prompt the download and installation on demand ?

[C.G.]

Generally, the active hours only refer to when the machine restarts (it won't during active hours unless you click restart now. Since you have not updated your machine in a while, the updates will probably install in several stages and you will have to (or the machine will in inactive hours) restart in order to continue with the updates.

[KSH]

Just hit the check now button

[nine mil thrill]

KSH.....that is my problem.......i hit check now, then it scans and shows the downloads i need. now how do i tell it to download and install now.......while i have the computer powered up ?

[KSH]

Should be another button that says download now..

[nine mil thrill]

nope.....no button

[Skip_Dog]

Restart and try it again.

[C.G.]

Restart and try it again.

What he said. Not all updates will install at once, but will install in stages, as per my post earlier, and need to be re-started in between.

[the86d]

What he said. Not all updates will install at once, but will install in stages, as per my post earlier, and need to be re-started in between.

What we have here is possibly dependencies to prerequesite updates...?

[MrBlazito]

Take a screen shot of the windows updates window.

[nine mil thrill]

there is nothing here to prompt the update to download and install......

[C.G.]

there is nothing here to prompt the update to download and install......

Restart and run update again, then report what happened.

[C.G.]

This may be a possible issue, if you use System Restore:

https://mspoweruser.com/dont-install-the-latest-windows-10-updates-if-you-use-system-restore/

[ironhorse1]

My ASUS laptop would not update. The problem seemed to be that it would go into sleep mode and not finish any updates.

The solution was to turn off all sleep modes and anything that would shut down the laptop.

After staying on all night it completed all updates and had updated to the most recent version of Windows 10.

irh

[nine mil thrill]

it seems to me , the only real option is to leave it on for the entire weekend, and then power down monday morning. seeing as this this computer is used only for banking, i hate to leave it on24/7 not knowing what all win 10 garbage is in the backround that will run when un-attended at night.