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I'm on geniuine Windows 8.1.

I've been trying to get this to work forever now. According to the installer, it's downloading but when I click "View progress" it opens Windows Update which says "Looking for updates" and then after a few seconds Windows Update just force closes, causing everything to flash and explorer.exe to restart. I do not know why I cannot get this to download, I've restarted my computer several times and it just does the same thing everytime I try. Is anyone experiencing the same thing as me, and is there a fix? If I open Windows update from the control panel it just shows that it's actually doing nothing, not even searching for updates.

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  • I know, but surely since it's out it shouldn't be hard to download? Other people in this residence could download it just fine, except me. Jul 31, 2015 at 10:34
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    Have you tried to download the .ISO and use that instead?
    – Ramhound
    Jul 31, 2015 at 14:50

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Try doing this:

  1. Launch an elevated command prompt. (Open the Charms, click Search, type "cmd" without quotes, and press control+shift+enter.)
  2. Type: wuauclt.exe /updatenow. Press enter.

Check Windows Update to see if it's downloading. If not, make sure that Automatic Updates are enabled. If it's still not working, run this troubleshooter, then try again.

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