Have two different PCs that are stuck in endless windows update loops at the mo, one is win7 desktop and one’s a win10 laptop. Is there some easy way around it? Takes like an hour each time and then reverts anyway. Infuriating.
This happened to me ages ago. I cant remember exactly but I think I booted in safe mode, and either launched msconfig or run windows update manually selecting the updates individually until I found the bad one.
I went for the nuclear option and reset the laptop to factory settings and re-installed all software and updates from scratch, It was a pain, but got there eventually. Before I did that, I removed the HDD and mounted it as an external drive on another laptop and backed up anything that I had not previously backed up before. Of course.
Had something similar, and it was caused by something really banal like a USB mouse driver. Uninstalled the mouse, then the update worked fine - maybe try randomly deleting peripherals?