I know this should go without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway. I'll show you that, then I'll share with you some of the additional steps I would have taken if the update still hadn't worked. Fortunately, in my case, the very first tactic I used succeeded. You can try a bunch of tricks to fix updates when they fail. It made some progress, but then it failed.
The template hadn't been updated in a while.Īs is always the case when re-activating a VM, I ran Windows Update. I use a standard Windows 10 starter template VM whenever I need a fresh machine. Because they are essentially just files, virtual machine images tend to sit around, powered off, unless you need them.
This weekend, I fired up a Windows 10 VM image I hadn't used for a while.
