{"id":18213,"date":"2021-01-17T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2021-10-03T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:09:16","slug":"windows-10-upgrade-error-0x80244019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/01\/17\/windows-10-upgrade-error-0x80244019\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Upgrade Error 0x80244019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/windows-10-upgrade-fehler-0x80244019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]When upgrading from Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, some users receive error 80244019. The question is what is blocking the upgrade. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg06.met.vgwort.de\/na\/f21b601443f94da8b8d77e08691a68ce\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">The error pattern is quite simple: the Windows 10 upgrade aborts after about 85% with error code 80244019. Something in Windows Update is preventing the installation from going through. There are then users who try to tackle Windows Update with FixIt Windows Update Diagnostic, but may get error 0x80070057.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/35IeXiH.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>If you search for the error code, you will find <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/de-de\/windows-vista\/windows-update-error-80070422-80244019-or-8ddd0018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> about Windows Vista at Microsoft. The article suggests checking for viruses, but this is likely to be counterproductive.  <\/p>\n<h2>And the root cause is?<\/h2>\n<p>In my German blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/windows-10-upgrade-troubleshooting-faq-teil-1\/\">Windows 10 Upgrade-Troubleshooting FAQ \u2013 Teil 1<\/a> I had listed what you should do before the upgrade. This includes uninstalling virus scanners and tuning tools. Upon further research, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/de-de\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-windows_install\/win-10-upgradefehler-80244019\/00e8ba30-6673-4a5e-aca5-7de22e855e1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this German MS Answers forum post<\/a> where AVIRA and Spybot Search &amp; Destroy are listed as showstoppers.  <\/p>\n<h2>Windows upgrade and repair corrupted system<\/h2>\n<p>If that is not the cause, the advice given in <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-update\/error-code-80244019-cant-get-windows-10\/42abfeb3-153c-4c33-9973-f40a44fb60a1\">this MS Answers forum post<\/a> may help. One approach would be to reset Windows Update with the following steps:  <\/p>\n<p>1. Invoke the administrative command prompt (type cmd in the search and then select the hit about Run as administrator).  <\/p>\n<p>2. Stop the following services in the command prompt:  <\/p>\n<p><em>net stop wuauserv<br \/>net stop cryptSvc<br \/>net stop bits<br \/>net stop msiserver<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>3. Now you can rename the <em>SoftwareDistribution<\/em> folder and the <em>Catroot2<\/em> folder with the following commands.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>ren C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old<br \/>ren C:\\Windows\\System32\\catroot2 Catroot2.old<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>4. Finally, restart the stopped services with the following commands:  <\/p>\n<p><em>net start wuauserv<br \/>net start cryptSvc<br \/>net start bits<br \/>net start msiserver<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>Windows should then be restarted. The above steps will ensure that no corrupted upgrade store will interfere with the Windows 10 upgrade installation. To make sure that the upgrade goes through afterwards, it also involves checking along with repairing corrupted system files, which I addressed in the German article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/windows-10-upgrade-troubleshooting-faq-teil-1\/\">Windows 10 Upgrade-Troubleshooting FAQ \u2013 Teil 1<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<h2>Further hints<\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.windowscentral.com\/ask-question\/373682-anyone-have-fix-windows-update-error-code-80244019-windows-8-1-a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this forum thread<\/a>, someone suggests disabling installation of updates for other Microsoft products under Windows Update settings. Is also <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210125225759\/https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/forums\/discussions\/0x80244019-windows-10-update-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given here<\/a> as a solution.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>To avoid multiple downloads of Windows 10 via Windows Update, I recommend downloading and installing the upgrade via Media Creation Tool anyway. I described how to do this in the article series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/03\/windows-10-download-mit-dem-media-creation-tool-teil-1\/\">Windows 10: Download mit dem Media Creation Tool \u2013 Teil 1<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<h2>Error in Windows 7 SP1<\/h2>\n<p>Recently I had the error under Windows 7 SP1 after running the Update  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DumRU4K.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"386\">  <\/p>\n<p>In this case, a restart of Windows 7 SP1 was sufficient to check for updates again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]When upgrading from Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, some users receive error 80244019. 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