The update is not applicable to your computer. Update KB4012212 is not applicable to this computer

While PC users who use Windows 7 and earlier will be forced to purchase a copy of Windows 8.1, the latest version of Windows 8.1 is available for free download for existing Windows 8 users. That is, if your computer is running Windows 8, then your computer has eligible for free updates and it is possible to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 without losing files and installed applications. But many users seem to have problems installing the new Windows 8.1 Preview update from Microsoft. People have complained that they can't get the Windows 8.1 update and they get errors during the update process. If you can't install Windows 8.1 correctly, this article describes several possible solutions to this problem. Before diving into the root cause of the problem, there are a few.

Installing Windows 8.1 Preview

To install Windows 8.1 Preview, you must be signed in to your Microsoft account. Therefore, if you are currently using a local account, switch to a Microsoft account. The settings will revert back to the local account and will be available after upgrading to the final version of Windows 8.1, which will be released later.
Download the update package (~ 15MB) from Microsoft and install it. Restart your computer and as soon as you log into Windows you will be prompted to upgrade to Windows 8.1.

When you open the Windows Store app, you will see Windows 8.1 Preview that it is listed.
Installation 2.44GB as indicated and you can proceed with the update process from there.

The update is not applicable to your computer error

If this error occurs when installing the above (~ 15MB) file from Microsoft, you may need to install the package manually. You can use the command line to get the installed update.

1.Choose a location and rename Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x64.msu file in an accessible location, eg. C: \ 8preview \ windows81.msu
2.Next, you need to run the command line as administrator and run the following commands.
3.Expand-F: * c: \ 8preview \ windows81.msu C: \ 8preview \

4.DISM.exe / Online / Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\8preview\Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x64.cab

If you are using a 32-bit operating system, the file name will be Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x86.cab, replace it accordingly.

If you still have questions, you may need to install the system language ru-RU. This is not recommended by Microsoft for the sake of installing Windows 8.1.

Press the Windows key and type regedit.exe and open the Windows Registry Editor.
Switch to HKey_Local_Machine \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Nls \ Language
Change the “InstallLanguage” line at the very bottom of the right pane so that the value is 0409 which is EN-US.

This should fix the problem and restart your PC and visit the Windows Store to see Windows 8.1 Preview listed in the first place.

“Windows 8.1 Preview is currently not available. Please try again later. "

After getting the last steps above, you might get the error message above. All you can do now is just keep trying Windows servers that might be attacked right now. Once you succeed, the update will proceed to install and it will run in the background so you can continue working while it is being installed.

Good afternoon, dear readers and subscribers of the blog and channel, remember not so long ago I told you how I solved the problem that windows 7 is looking for updates for a long time, and so I caught something like this in the eight. As you know, every quarter I try to rebuild my assemblies with Microsoft operating systems, stitching new updates into them so that I can keep a fresh image at hand at any time and not waste time on updates. So in the eight before there was no glitch with an endless update, but apparently the insidious hands of Microsoft came there, and today I will show you how I decided endless update windows 8.1, I will try to cover this topic in as much detail as possible so that everyone can install the latest security patches.

Why is the infinite update of windows 8.1 happening

And so let's see why windows 8.1 update makes an endless search for updates, which leads to nothing but a waste of your time and nerves. There are several reasons, which we will consider in detail below:

Updates in the C: \ Windows \ SoftwareDistribution folder are corrupted
Microsoft servers not available
The problem with Windows Update 8.1
Glitchy update
Fresh Windows Update Agent not installed

I'll tell you my story before. As I wrote above, I started building a fresh build of Windows 8.1. I did a clean install of Windows 8.1 and naturally, the first thing I did was to go to System Update. Until that moment, I had never had any problems with downloading and installing them, but now I saw a picture familiar to Bole, in the form of an ever-running green slider, I even waited a day for the purity of the experiment, but the picture did not change.

For the sake of the purity of the experiment, I looked at the network activity, it was zero and I did not find any requests or downloads from Microsoft servers.

Let's now figure out what you need to do to make your windows 8.1 update stop endlessly searching for updates.

We clean the SoftwareDistribution folder

The endless search for windows 8.1 updates, maybe due to corrupted updates that had time to download in the background or could have been downloaded before. To get rid of them, I advise you to delete the contents of the C: \ Windows \ SoftwareDistribution folder.

Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3065988) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-RU/download/details.aspx?id=47738

Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3138615) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-RU/download/details.aspx?id=51209

I want to note that you should install these stand-alone update packages only with the Windows Update service disabled.

To do this, press Win + R and enter services.msc and press Enter.

As a result, the Services snap-in will open, at the very bottom find the Windows Update service, right-click on it and select Stop.

And to avoid glitches with an endless search for additional updates themselves, set in the parameter settings, the item "Do not check for updates"

As soon as the service finishes its work, you can start installing the updates that fix the endless search for updates in the windows 8.1 update center. Install KB2999226 first, then KB317342 and only then KB3172614.

The installation wizard for offline updates does not require anything from you.

When finished, you will see that the installation is complete.

We do the same with KB3173424

and with KB3172614, but unlike the others, this is a cumulative July 2016 hotfix.

Once KB3172614 is installed, you will see a prompt to reboot to apply the patches, do so.

After rebooting, go back to Windows 8.1 Update and try to search for updates, in my case it was a victory, after a minute I was able to find 189 important updates.

If, when installing updates, you have a download window for a very long time and you are worried that nothing is happening, then in order to understand whether Windows 8.1 updates are being downloaded or not, you can check the following things.

Open resource monitoring, go to the Disk tab and make sure that the WinSxS folder is being accessed, and you can also check if new files have appeared in the C: \ Windows \ SoftwareDistribution \ downloads folder.

By the way, when looking for updates, you can see error 80244019, as I already told you how to solve it, but before trying the methods described there, check this.

Go to Parameter Settings.

And make sure you have Install updates automatically (recommended)

If you already have these updates or their installation has not yielded results, then installing a monthly set of security quality fixes for Windows 8.1 systems under the code KB4048958 will help you, you can download it from the link http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com /Search.aspx?q=KB4048958 and KB4057401 http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4057401

Troubleshoot Windows Update

As we know from the latest Windows 10 Redstone operating system, they are far from ideal. The number of glitches in the system has grown a lot over the past year, plus Microsoft has thrown all its forces into ten and thereby worsened support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. If the described methods with installing KB did not help you and your search for an update is spinning endlessly in Windows 8.1, then try using the system troubleshooter.

To do this, go to Control Panel> Troubleshoot

Under System and Security, click on Troubleshoot with Windows Update.

Your operating system will try to detect problems that can cause you an endless search for updates in windows 8.1, in parallel it may find something else. In general, the tool is very good, and in some cases it can greatly help out.

To complete the task, the troubleshooter may ask you to run it as an administrator, do so.

Since when installing, for example, the same antivirus solutions or hypervisors, the TCP / IP stack may be affected,

I also advise you to try disabling your antivirus, at the time of trying to install updates, perhaps it prevents access to Microsoft servers

I hope the methods described above can help you in eliminating the endless search for windows 8.1 updates and you can close all security loopholes in it, in general, this is another stone in Microsoft's garden, it's a shame comrades throw their old products with official support.

Good day, admin! I am trying to manually install on a computer with Windows 10 1607 security update KB4103723, which I downloaded manually from the Windows Update Catalog website (automatic update does not work, because the computer is on the internal network, isolated from the Internet). I downloaded the MSU update file, I try to run it, a window appears “ Windows Update Standalone Installer: Search for updates on this computer", And after 2 minutes an error appears:

The update is not applicable to this computer.

How do I install this security update? Without this update, when you connect to a computer remotely by RDP, the CredSSP encryption oracle remediation error appears (I install the update according to your article). How to be?

Answer

I can’t give an unequivocal answer why a particular update is not applicable to your computer; here you need to look at the computer itself. But I will try to consider the main reasons why it is impossible to install the Windows security update and how to solve the problem.

So, the error “ The update is not applicable to this computer» ( The Update is not applicable to your Computer- in the English version of Windows) appears when trying to manually install an MSU update using the wusa.exe utility (Windows Update Standalone Installer). Why Windows 10 / 8.1 / 7 may think that the update is not applicable:

In some cases, you can try to install the MSU update file not through the WUSA.exe utility (which is used by the standalone Windows update installer), but by unpacking the CAB file and installing it via DISM or the Add-WindowsPackage cmdlet directly into the Windows image. For your update, the procedure for manually installing an update might look like this:

: expand _f: * “C: \ Temp \ windows10.0-KB4103723-x64.msu” C: \ Temp \ KB4103723
A CAB with a name like Windows10.0-KB4103723-x64.cab will appear in the C: \ Temp \ KB4103723 directory;
Install the given CAB update file using DISM.exe (DISM.exe / Online / Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\Temp\Windows10.0-KB4103723-x64.cab) or using PowerShell (Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath “C: \ Temp \ Windows10.0-KB4103723-x64.cab”)

Regarding your case. It is not necessary to install the update KB4103723. This is a cumulative update for Windows 10 1607 x64 from May 2018, so you can install any later update for your version of Windows, because it already includes all previous updates. For example, you can install the KB4467684 (November 2018) update for Windows 10 1607.

It is sometimes useful to look at the specific error code for installing updates in the Event Viewer console. Go to section Installation (Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Setup) and find the event with the WUSA source, most likely it will contain text something like this.

KB4012212 is a security update only for Windows 7. There are no new operating system features in it. The KB4012212 update is used to protect your computer from the WannaCry ransomware virus. Which encrypts all files on the computer, and then requires a ransom to an electronic wallet to decrypt them. To protect yourself from this virus, you need to download the KB4012212 update for your Windows 7 operating system from the official Microsoft website. During installation, you may receive the message "update KB4012212 is not applicable to this computer." I will try to understand this malfunction in this article.

KB4012212 update is not applicable to this computer - step 1

First, make sure that update KB4012212 matches the bitness of your operating system. How to determine the bitness of the OS and find out the differences between versions can be read. If the bitness does not match, then on the official Microsoft website download the required update KB4012212. We try to start the installation again. If the above steps did not help to resolve the error "update KB4012212 is not applicable to this computer", then proceed to the next step.

Update KB4012212 is not applicable to this computer - step 2

Now we check the operating system for Service Pack 1. SP 1 contains a package of fixes, updates and patches for Windows 7. As well as fixes for some operating system errors. Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". Service Pack 1 should be written in the "Windows Edition" field (to the left of the icon). If there is no inscription, then you will have to download Service Pack 1 from the official Microsoft website. Several files will be offered for download on the site. We need windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe (for 64-bit Windows 7) or windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe (for 32-bit Windows 7). Download the required file and install Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. Installation may take about an hour. And the computer can be restarted several times. After installing Service Pack 1, we try to install the KB4012212 update again. The installation should be successful and the message "update KB4012212 is not applicable to this computer" should not appear.

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This article describes an attempt to understand the Update is not applicable to this computer error, as well as a description of the problems that cause it.

Reasons for the error

Among the most common causes of error are the following:

What's the bottom line?

As you can see from the list, which I have ranked according to the degree of "participation" of factors in the fact that this or that update is not applicable to this computer, your attempts install it may quite logical end in nothing... But we will sort it out anyway.

Pre-updates not installed

You "hurried" with the updates. But it's not you who are to blame, it's Windows. It honestly slips the first-priority updates to users “in the first words”. But, as you can imagine, updates do not become such updates at a time, and their list changes weekly. As well as the priority itself. So the situation is stalemate - you have already received some updates, but the first-priority ones refuse to be installed: some of them require installation preliminary updates... This often happens when a system that is far from the latest generation is installed clean, and there is already a sea of updates for it. So, most updates require preinstalled service packs, which take a very long time to download.

What to do?

We are waiting for the installation of Windows updates in the usual way. Background through the Update Center or forced from there Searching for updates... An alternative option, if the hard disk space suffers, can be called the installation Optional updates... I’ll tell you right away - you don’t need someone else's language packs:

Thus, in this case, we have to wait in line and not force the events.

Updates are out of date

It is a very common occurrence when recently released updates simply “overlap” the previous ones that appeared before. Both those and others are listed in the database, but the system, seeing that the "hole" is already closed, the old update simply does not start up. Such an update is marked replaced, but causes the same error we know.

What to do?

Nothing. We ignore the error, waiting for it to disappear from the list of updates prepared for your system.

Updates have been installed for a long time

The situation is similar to the previous one. However, the difference is that one of the installed updates already contains a payload that is not installed. That is, the installed update completely overlaps the previous one hanging in the database.

What to do?

Nothing. The error will have to be ignored.

System errors

But this is already more difficult. It is clear that with broken system files in the part covered by updates, the system may incorrectly assess the situation. Assuming that the updates are not installed and the "holes" are not patched. And he stubbornly offers this or that update. When trying to install it, however, she stumbles upon the update "passport" and sees that something has already been installed or replaced (see paragraphs above). And so every time.

Moreover, such an error often lies in wait for the user when applying updates in which the language component is critical. So come to terms with what is for some non-English locales Windows some updates will never be installed... Or crank the operation if you think the skin is worth the candle. But for Windows we put “minus one point”.

What to do?

Repairing system files... In this sense, Windows 10 users have more opportunities than the "seven-rowers". Since the advent of Windows 8, the system can not only check the integrity of critical files using the utility, but also ask the servers for help through the DISM.exe utility. So if the error The update is not applicable to this computer lying in wait for you on Windows 10, I advise including stock up on bootable media with a suitable system. Tips for correcting the error in the corresponding paragraph.

Wrong computer architecture

Windows is rarely mistaken in this matter, but the user sometimes tries to cram something unpushy by slipping 64-bit instructions on a 32-bit processor. And vice versa. The result is, of course, predictably negative.

What to do?

Nothing. Just be careful.

License problems

It goes without saying. Windows regularly checks to see if you've honestly bought or installed a copy of their product. If not, the system files will try to “fix” the situation. Whether the process is successful or not depends on the skill level of the patch manufacturer. Windows manufacturers have several approaches to checking, so owners of “cracked” versions constantly have to check the status of the license. Naturally, in this case, the issue of updates will lie precisely in the area of system security patches. And it is natural that it is a number of such payloads that get rejected when installed in unlicensed Windows.

What to do?

A trivial question. There are only two ways that the warranty will work:

purchase a license
reset the key, enter the “corporate” key to your version for the duration of the update installation; after applying the updates ... well, you get the idea

How to get rid of the Update is not applicable to this computer error?

If there is such a method, it is regulated by the following instruments:

make sure you read the previous paragraphs carefully and get the gist of what is happening
Remember that the upgrade process, like many other Windows repair processes, is a multi-step process. Not in the sense of a reboot, but in the sense of reinstalling updates: try again and again
do not hurry. In a normally working system with whole files, everything will fall into place. If you are sure of the integrity of the system files, the updates in the column Refusal you don't need
but to make sure the integrity of these very files, you have a whole set of tools in your arsenal. Windows 10 owners can get started with the DISM Checker Tool. We connect to the network and write in the line on behalf of the admin:

DISM.exe / Online / Cleanup-image / Restorehealth

If you get an error, from which it follows that the Update Center client program has already fallen off, use the boot / installation disk / flash drive and enter the command:

DISM.exe / Online / Cleanup-Image / RestoreHealth / Source: X: \ RepairSource \ Windows/ LimitAccess

where bold is the path to the removable media folder with Windows installation data. We end the check with the traditional command:

Sfc / scannow

Windows 7 owners have options too. For them, packages for checking readiness to receive updates for a specific architecture have been prepared. It is replenished regularly so that it can be used as a preventive measure. The latest versions of the packages are on the Microsoft office. There you will also find a description of possible errors in the Update Center and the reasons that caused them. But before that, I also advise you to run the system with the command sfc / scannow with or without installation disc.

try. However, if the failed update belongs to one of the previously described categories, you are more likely to fail.

How do I check the update information?

In addition to the traditional way to check the list of updates for your Windows through the Update Center, which can be called by the utility in the search bar:

Wuapp.exe

there are a few more ways to check the available patches. Let me remind you that, among other things, the utility can do this.

Systeminfo

from cmd under admin rights:

From the same cmd with the same conditions, you can check a specific update:

Wmic qfe get hotfixid | find "KB2849697"

If there is a patch, the console will return its name:

You can look at the list of updates in html format in the browser window:

Wmic qfe list /format:htable>C:\Updates.html

After running, the browser file Updates you will find right at the root of the C drive:

What else can you remember? There is a way to recognize updates by name. So, some security update for MS17-010 is called Windows10.0-KB4013429-x64.msu, which means the KB number of the patch will be KB4013429... This information can be taken as a guide when downloading and installing updates manually.