KB4015438 hit by installation issues like its predecessors

Mar 21, 2017 08:48 GMT  ·  By

KB4015438 is the most recent cumulative update released by Microsoft for Windows 10 Anniversary Update systems and, unfortunately, it appears to suffer from the exact same problems as its predecessors.

There are reports out there, some of them on Microsoft’s Community forums, claiming that cumulative update KB4015438 fails to install as well, though it’s not yet clear whether the update gets an error or it just takes forever to complete as we’ve told you earlier today.

What’s worse, however, is that although it was supposed to address problems experienced by the previous cumulative update (KB4013429), there is almost no difference after installing the new patch, as it’s causing problems too.

“Previously, the problem was with KB 4013429, but after some days and Four Hours wasted, finally it is replaced by KB4015438. HOWEVER, the new one begins to fail again!” one user explains.

At this point, there is no workaround from Microsoft, but if you’re also experiencing freezes during the install, you'd better wait because this time it looks like the process is taking longer than expected. If no error is provided whatsoever, KB4015438 is very likely to install correctly, with everything happening in the background.

Additionally, you could also try downloading cumulative update KB4015438 manually, as this little trick sometimes fixed all issues with the previous updates that failed to install or caused other bugs.