The other day, Windows 7 update wanted to install, IIRC, 16 “important” updates. I let it do its thing until it wanted to reboot, then postponed that until I was ready to shut down anyway.
After I started up again next day I got a message that there had been a failure, and the updates history list shows just one of them [“Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2952664)”] as having failed to install. (All the others seem to have installed OK.)
I tried running the Microsoft Fix It tool but it didn’t seem to achieve anything. I tried re-running update, but it just tells me that “Windows is Up to Date”, but still with a message below that installation failed, and the list still shows this update as having failed. There does not seem to be a way to remove it from the list, either. I tried rebooting. It made no difference.
The Knowledge base article did not tell me anything useful except that, if I understood it rightly, maybe this particular update is not all that important after all. I am a bit reluctant to leave it, though, in case some later and more crucial update relies upon it.
Is there anything I can do to get this update to install properly, or should I just forget about it? Everything else seems to be running normally.