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Click your Start Button, type winver and hit Enter
Please provide a screenshot of the resulting dialog.
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Open the Settings App
Go to Windows Updates
Please provide a screenshot of that window
windows will not install important updates
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terry edward
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showing red exclamation mark but will not install important updates
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update
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DaveM121 764.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor2025-08-27T16:14:40.82+00:00 -
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(22.400000000000002, 78%, 12%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3ETE%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
terry edward 0 Reputation points2025-08-27T16:36:11.59+00:00 Nothing happened just told me I was using windows 11 which I knew
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![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(204.8, 96%, 29%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3END%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Neil D 28,220 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2025-08-28T15:10:40.3+00:00 When you type winver in Search and select the top result it identifies the version and build of windows. Report back the details in red.
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