hi /g/,
hope this is the right board. i got a cracked windows 8.1 installed on my notebook. updates always worked for me until august 2016. now if i search for updates it won't stop searching and nothing happens.
already tried WSUS Offline update and it seemed to work, but errors still occure, especially the "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll" error as i try to start itunes.
any ideas to update or restore the system without the windows ISO? thanks a lot.
Boot into the recovery env and do a refresh
install gentoo
>>60789579
Try resetting Windows Update service and install latest agent. Google how to do it.