Installation Failed To Start Because Another Update Installation Is In Progress Windows 7

1. Sccm This Installation Failed To Start Because Another Update Installation Is In Progress Windows 7
2. Installation Failed To Start Because Another Update Installation Is In Progress Windows 7

Issue: I have a client computer that will not install updates. Client OS: Windows XP SP3 System Center Client Version: 4.00.5931.0001 Details: The updates are downloaded to the client and the user is notified by an icon in the system tray that updates are ready to be installed. When the user tries to install the updates, however, they get the message 'This installation failed to start because another update installation is in progress.

Please try again later.' Troubleshooting: I stopped and started wuauserv. I have renamed windowsupdate.log. I tried installing the updates when logged on as administrator. I've come across the same problem and thought I'd add to this given it's one of the first search results when looking for this error message. I encounted this on an XP SP3 machine which was stuck with one patch it wouldn't install, my initial thought was that there's another installation stuck in the background or the registry has been marked as there being a pending installation (an issue that seemed to occur with one of the older SQL installs).

Sccm This Installation Failed To Start Because Another Update Installation Is In Progress Windows 7

Installation Failed To Start Because Another Update Installation Is In Progress Windows 7

In this case there definitely wasn't any other installs in progress and other software could install fine, installing the patch manually also worked without issue. I rebuilt the WMI repository then reinstalled the sccm client and that seems to have resolved it, once it came back up the machine installed some other patches it must have been missing itself and since then it's been fine.

Issue: I have a client computer that will not install updates. Client OS: Windows XP SP3 System Center Client Version: 4.00.5931.0001 Details: The updates are downloaded to the client and the user is notified by an icon in the system tray that updates are ready to be installed. When the user tries to install the updates, however, they get the message 'This installation failed to start because another update installation is in progress. Please try again later.' Troubleshooting: I stopped and started wuauserv. I have renamed windowsupdate.log. I tried installing the updates when logged on as administrator.

I cannot find any other installations running. There are no instances of msiexec.exe running in the process manager.

The issue has been happening for the last two weeks to just one computer on my network. Other computers are fine.