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Some users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 are receiving error 80240020 from Windows Update during a Windows 10 upgrade. And the upgrade stalls. <\/p>\nSome users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 are receiving error 80240020 from Windows Update during a Windows 10 upgrade. And the upgrade stalls. <\/p>\n
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The reason for this error is, that the 1st install phase can't be finished. In German Microsoft Answers<\/a> forum our moderators suggest to wait till the system notifies about the Windows 10 upgrade. Another recommendation is to proceed the following steps. <\/p>\n 1. Open an administrative command prompt window and execute the command net stop wuauserv<\/em> \u2013 this stops Windows Update service. <\/p>\n 2. Open explorer, navigate to C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\Download\\ <\/em>and delete all files included within this folder. <\/p>\n 3. Execute the command wuauclt.exe \/updatenow<\/em> within an administrative command prompt window. <\/p>\n After rebooting the error should be gone. For further reading, visit this reddit.com thread<\/a>. <\/p>\n Recommended Articles<\/strong> Some users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 are receiving error 80240020 from Windows Update during a Windows 10 upgrade. And the upgrade stalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,76],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-error-80240020","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35681,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/35681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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