Recent content by AZhermit

I waited a while to reply after moving the $WinREAgent Folder to my desktop in case something went amuck. But it worked fine and it hasn't mysteriously reappeared as a Microsoft computer engineer suggest it might. Updates working fine since the move. Thanks to all. I think this one is solved as...

Interesting that properties box looks different depending on whether you're logged with an admin account or local account with admin sign-in permission. The latter had the drop-down dimmed & only ON or OFF in the left column. (& my window was too small to see to the right enough to see the...

Well, thanks for that Everest101. I didn't know that existed (like many other things). Only, when I go to it in Windows11 I only have the choice of ON or OFF. I assume OFF only notifies you of updates available and doesn't download them until you tell it to. Is that right? I used to be able to...

You folks might appreciate knowing that I talked to a friend's son today who works for Microsoft in a supervisory position of a large group of geek types. He said a lot of people are having problems with these two updates 22H2 & 23H2 not installing, and said he'd just wait until Microsoft fixed...

SOLVED - without any issues getting there!!! I tried Border Reiver's solution except instead of deleting the folder, just moving C:\$WinREAgent to a folder on my desktop to save it in case of unexpected results (who's ever had unexpected results on a computer?...) and restarted. Then tried...

Thanks for your post. Having the same problem as you did. Didn't get anything when running SFC /ScanNow or DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. Regarding the C:\$WinREAgent file. Does it matter what it gets renamed to. What did you rename it to?