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The window appears: Windows Update Standalone Installer: Searching for updates on this computer, and after 2 minutes the error pops up: The update is not applicable to your computer.

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But Ill try to consider the main reasons why it is impossible to install a security updates in Windows 10 and how to solve your problem.

Why Windows 10 8.1 7 can assume that the update is not applicable.

For example, you are trying to install x86 update on Windows x64.

Check this info on your computer and try to download an update suitable for your Windows version.

Regarding the system language: sometimes the language of the installed system is used, it differs from the interface language (here you need to be careful).

Information about replaced updates can be found on the KB page on the Microsoft website.

Usually this information is listed in the format: Package Details.

The list of installed updates can be obtained using the wmic qfe list command or using the PowerShell module PSWindowsUpdate.

All this information should also be present on the KB information page.

Carefully read all the requirements for your patch, you may have to install another update first.

Try to download the MSU update file from the Windows Update Catalog site ( ).

The procedure for manually installing a CAB update might look like this.

This is a cumulative update for Windows 10 1607 x64 from May 2018, respectively, you can install any later cumulative update for your version of Windows, because it already includes all previous updates.

For example, you can install the update KB4480961 (January 2019) for Windows 10 1607.

Go to the section Event Viewer - Windows Logs - Setup and find the event with the WUSA source, most likely it will contain the event something like this.

I went back on to the download catalog and saw my mistake, and I downloaded the proper file.

Make sure you download the appropriate file for your system.

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