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UPDATE: Just logged back into Windows and the KB5068861 installed without a hitch. Something must have changed at Microsoft for this update to install, between Sunday and today, because I've been logged in on Linux since Sunday evening. Marking as solved.

I think that just might be the proper strategy, and thankfully W11 is not my primary OS, so I have the time to wait for a fix!

You are so right. A live Linux session on a Ventoy USB stick can cure a multitude evils.

Oh, yeah… It's not a question of if, but more of when Windows fails, at least you'll have an old reliable to fall back on.

A Windows.old folder of around 40 GB?... Oh, no! W11 already occupies way more SSD storage and resources than my Linux distro (108GB), so that'll put me right on the brink of a full C:\ partition (311GB), and that's with no Data stored on the C:\ partition. Thank goodness, all Data is on a...

1st thing I did, and... Still at 26200.6899

If I run the downloaded file from the MS Catalog, I get this...

It was not applicable to my machine, so it must already be installed.

The hashes you provided match the hash of the downloaded file ... Where ever you got them, they match. What I want to know is, why weren't they provided in the Update Catalog?

Downloaded it multiple times and hash does not match what MS provides for a SHA256.... (SHA256: wuMX24pCKlLJZraFs7M/z68RhntpE+u4p1fIF2RGkOs=) as I stated earlier, I've never seen special characters in a SHA256 hash. This ScrnSht is directly from the MS catalog.

This is the error code.

I'm running the update again, will get you the code as soon as it finishes. EDIT: It appears to be hung at 22%.

In the Update Mgr the KB-5068861 fails to install, multiple times. Next, I downloaded KB-5068861, trying to install it manually, also resulting in, failure. I've been dealing with these failures all month. Is this Security Update corrupted?.... I suspect it is. The SHA1 & SHA256 Checksums...

Took me a while. Used a Ventoy Live Linux Mint session to resize the Data partition, and move the unallocated space past 3 partitions, then merge it with W11. Easier to do it that way because nothing on the SSD is mounted, so nobody complains when you start moving things around. Before...