When Windows Automatic Updates Fail to Install
Often I will get a call that someone has Windows Updates set to download and install automatically, yet that yellow exclamation persists in the system tray.
If you click on that yellow icon and choose “custom” then you can see the update that fails.
If you have not rebooted recently, or even if you have, try rebooting.
Hop over to support.microsoft.com and enter that update (usually KB followed by 6 numbers) in the search box and click “search site”, then manually download and install the update.
Not always, but many times that will do the trick to get the failed Windows update to install.
