update failed start menu no longer workkng

RD Mercer · Aug 26, 2023

Wow! Hope everyone is having a better day today, and has a wonderful weekend.

Winuser · Aug 26, 2023

RD Mercer said:
Wow! Hope everyone is having a better day today, and has a wonderful weekend.

Just sharing different opinions.

RD Mercer · Aug 26, 2023

Winuser said:
Just sharing different opinions.

I understand, I was just kind of shocked, I have never seen a thread here go this far south.

akira · Sep 14, 2023

johnlgalt said:
Yes.

Until the real problem is fixed.

And what is the real problem.
It sits there on a clean, completely wiped/formatted PC with nothing installed but just Windows Updates only.
There isn't rubbish on this PC but a "freshly" installed Windows 11.

And that error STILL happened.

Keep in mind this PC has nothing on it. It's literally wiped and formated compeltely sitting here just doing WIndows update.

2023-09 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5030219)
2023-08 Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057)

Still saying it.
And my SSDs are fine.

johnlgalt · Sep 19, 2023

Have you tried manually installing those updates using the .MSU files that Brink posts in each of the update threads by Brink?

antspants · Sep 19, 2023

As to some of the comments. This is why on a fresh install I unplug the network cable/s just as Windows is about to do its first boot after a fresh install. I make an image.
Manually installing the questionable updates is worth a try.

johnlgalt · Sep 20, 2023

This is also what @Kari would stress in his tutorials as well. It's something I learned the hard way several years ago with one of ~~hte~~ the Windows 10 semi-yearly updates, and that I have been employing since - and since I do it all the time, I've forgotten that it is not 'normal' procedure.

When clean installing, kill your network connection (and if presented with a choice during install, uncheck the option to install updates during install). But killing the network connection just after key verification (if you need to enter a key) should be fine also.

I just skip the whole key entry so I can do installs with no internet connection from jump when I need to.

akira · Nov 11, 2023

johnlgalt said:
This is also what @Kari would stress in his tutorials as well. It's something I learned the hard way several years ago with one of ~~hte~~ the Windows 10 semi-yearly updates, and that I have been employing since - and since I do it all the time, I've forgotten that it is not 'normal' procedure.

When clean installing, kill your network connection (and if presented with a choice during install, uncheck the option to install updates during install). But killing the network connection just after key verification (if you need to enter a key) should be fine also.

I just skip the whole key entry so I can do installs with no internet connection from jump when I need to.

johnlgalt said:
Have you tried manually installing those updates using the .MSU files that Brink posts in each of the update threads by Brink?

I checked the CBS.log for the very first time to check errors regarding this issue and did a little bit more research; discovering that it was the App Readiness service I had set to Disabled that shouldn't have been. Setting it back to Manual/Default fixed it. All updates/Cumulative update are install OK now.
Currently on the latest 23H2.