If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.
The MSI file format used by Windows Installer (MSI) is used specifically for installation – this differs from the EXE format sometimes used to run installers, which are simple executable files that ...
If when you try to install the latest Feature Upgrade, it fails with an error message – 0x8007042B–0x4000D, The installation failed in the SECOND_BOOT phase with ...