
As best I can tell, the patch is still being offered on Windows 7 machines.Windows Update Error Code 800F080D occurs when system files become corrupted probably due to hard disk problems or after a virus attack. The problems have not been acknowledged by Microsoft.

Steve Campbell gives a complete description of the 72 percent failure and says he hit an error code 80004005. Similar angst appears on the HP support forum, and with a post from rvnlord on Sysnative. It gives me no joy to learn from the KB3033929 Advisory that Microsoft has apparently not found the installation problem and chose to release a similar broken update a second time. In October I found I had to reinstall Windows and all application software on that machine to finally install KB2949927.

I believe I had the exact same problem on the same machine with the previous update KB2949927 mentioned in the KB3033929 advisory last October. Reverting changes" once againĪfter that, I can try again and all of that will happen again - even if I try it with the "standalone" file.Ī similar thread appears in the Microsoft Answers forum, with this one additional observation from Gene Olson: "prepares to configure Windows" once again, shows the "Failure configuring Windows update.after restart, it is "Preparing to configure Windows," gets to about 72 percent, reports "Failure configuring Windows update.before shutting down and restarting, it "Configures Windows" for a while.There's yet another manifestation described in that thread, from Danilo Godec: The other two are able to back out of it and revert to a previous state. Security Update for Windows 7 for 圆4-based Systems (KB3033929) Is causing an infinite loop on one of the machines and the desktop in unreachable completely. This is effecting a laptop and two desktops on Windows 7. The same TechNet thread now contains details on many other failures, including error codes 800B0100, 80070005, and 80070002. Tried the update twice and both times it failed.

Security Update for Windows 7 for 圆4-based Systems (KB3033929)
