Revisiting KB5035942 running every day

I found an entry in the Setup log from 2/25/2025 that showed the package that would have installed KB5035942 failed (see attached). Shortly after, my problem with KB5035942 installing every day started. It CONTINUES to run EVERY DAY!!! However, I cannot find ANY entry in the logs that say KB5035942 has run, yet it messes up my applications every day.

Can the install failure back in February set some kind of 'external trigger' somewhere, say Microsoft, that says 'OK there was a failure, run this until it installs'? It seems to me that this is being set off externally for some reason. Please, someone help stop this nightmare.

Try running "Dism /Online /CleanUp-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore" with an elivated command prompt.

If it says you have 2 unreclaimable packages, it might be worth running Bree's rollout fix. Mine was trying to update everyday, it's a common thing, but now mine just remains listed under other updates.



Found in this thread How-to-remove-the-two-un-reclaimable-that-always-show-in-dism

It fixed them for me!

Thanks for your help!! Ran the DISM commands and went from 7 reclaimable packages to 0 reclaimable packages. Before I close this thread, I will wait until tomorrow morning to see if KB5035942 runs again (apparently runs sometime during the night). I will return then but thanks very much for your help. See you tomorrow.

rzn6jw said:

See you tomorrow.

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Sleep well.

rzn6jw said:

I will wait until tomorrow morning to see if KB5035942 runs again

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If it’s still happening, you could try resetting Windows Update.

Well, the blasted thing ran again this morning logging me off everything I had open from the night before. Will try the reset Windows Update and see what happens.

Tried resetting Windows update through the .bat file procedure and it failed because Norton Security would not allow the cryptographic services to shut down. Any ideas on how to shut it down without uninstalling Norton?