- Windows 10 recently obtained a patch with the recovery environment
- Some users are seeing an error message that says that the patch could not install
- In fact, the installed update is fine, and the error message is the error
Some Windows 10 users are finding an error message after applying a new patch for the operating system, informing them that the update failed, when it really did not.
Neowin saw the update in question (known as KB5057589) that was launched last week (separately from the main accumulated update for April) and players with the Windows recovery environment (Winre) on some Windows 10 PC (21h2 and 22h2 versions).
Far from all Windows 10 users, they will get this, then, but those who do could face an error message after it has been installed (which is visible on the Windows Update configuration page).
It reads: “0x80070643 – Error_install_failure”.
That seems alarming, of course, and seeing this, you will do the right assumption that the update has failed. However, as mentioned, the error is not with the update, but the real error message itself.
Microsoft explains: “This error message is not necessary and does not affect the update or functionality of the device. Although the error message suggests that the update was not completed, Winre update is typically applied successfully after the device is restarted.”
Microsoft also points out that the update can continue to show as ‘failed’ (when it has not done so) until the next update verification, after which the error message must erase from its system.
Analysis: errors in errors
In summary, there is nothing wrong, except the error itself, but that will confuse people, and perhaps send them some unnecessary, and potentially long rabbit holes, to find more information or a solution to a problem that does not exist.
The problem is what is aggravating this is that all Winre’s debacle has been a long -term issue. A patch for this was previously launched in January 2025 more recently, and there were others before, with some people witnessing repeated facilities of this Winre solution, which is confusing itself.
That is why those rabbit holes that you could miss could end up looking so deep if you fail to catch Microsoft’s clarification about this matter.
Microsoft says it is working to solve this wandering error and will let us know when it happens. At least now it is armed with the knowledge that the update must be well despite what the error, in the capitals of plasters planted on its screen, says (and must be eliminated from its PC in a short time).
