Solved Was never offered Windows 11 22H2 update and now Win 11 21H2 is out of service

I was never offered Windows 11 22H2 update and now my Windows 11 21H2 is out of service. How do I update to the latest version of Windows? Windows update says that "You're up to date", yet "About system" shows I'm still at 21H2. I have all the proper Windows 11 requirements and nothing I'm aware of preventing an upgrade.

model: avadirect custom made i9 desktop bought in 2018 which came with Windows 10, upgraded from 10 to 11 some time afterwards. Currently still on Windows 11 21H2

Whatever the cause may be, the problem can be solved by downloading and installing 22H2 with a USB drive.

You can follow this tutorial to do an in place upgrade.

Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade Tutorial


Before that you could do a Windows Update reset which might have it offer it up to you.

Reset Windows Update in Windows 11 Tutorial


Before the in place upgrade I always recommend people have their data backed up. ( Just in case. )

Have you tried resetting the update components?
Open cmd prompt/powershell with admin & enter:
Net Stop bits
Net Stop wuauserv
Net Stop appidsvc
Net Stop cryptsvc
Ren %Systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore DataStore.bak
Ren %Systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download Download.bak
Ren %Systemroot%\System32\catroot2 catroot2.bak
Del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr*.dat"
Net Start bits
Net Start wuauserv
Net Start appidsvc
Net Start cryptsvc
Restart the PC & try updating again.

And/or:
Search for services.msc & find Windows Update & ensure it is set to Automatic.

Or as others have mentioned run an in-place repair using the 22H2 media creation tool.

There can be Windows policy settings to deny OS upgrades via Windows Update.

You can check with the GRC utility InControl by Steve Gibson.

Sorry for the late reply. The problem solved itself yesterday. I magically was offered and installed 22H2 yesterday on Windows Update. Don't know where it was the past year, but it's fixed now.

Yistaan said:

Sorry for the late reply. The problem solved itself yesterday. I magically was offered and installed 22H2 yesterday on Windows Update. Don't know where it was the past year, but it's fixed now.

Click to expand...

Glad to hear. I would double check for further updates & see if they install OK.