There’s no workaround for the time being, but here’s what another user suggested in a post:
I am glad it is not a critical security update, but still it is frustrating to spend so much time only to see the failure notice during the restart/configuring windows phase,” he continued. “Is there something wrong with this update? Any suggestions how how to get this update to install. All updates install successfully except KB2770917, which fails at 15% into the Configuring Windows Update,” a user said. “I am having the same problem when trying to install the latest rounds of Windows 8 updates (my Windows 8 installation was a clean install not an upgrade). Once the reboot is completed, installation fails at 15 percent, so the machine is restarted once again, with all changes automatically reverted. Several users are complaining that Windows Update fails on update KB2770917 and, as far are some of them are concerned, there’s no workaround for the issue.Īccording to a long Microsoft Answers thread, Windows Update normally downloads and tries to install the update, asking for a reboot when the task comes to an end. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates were supposed to fix several issues in Windows 8, but there’s one patch that actually does more harm than good.
