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My computer downloaded both Adobe Flash and Windows 10 updates, both requiring re-starts. I have 'update and restart' and 'update and shut down' at least a dozen times. Tried Update troubleshooter several times. Tried Airplane mode. Tried deleting Adobe Flash, and stopping Adobe Flash updater. Still getting this message in Windows Update History: 2018-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4103727) (11) Requires a re-start to finish installing 2018-05 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4103729) Requires a re-start to finish installing.

What version and OS Build number of windows is your system on now? Use the winver command in search to see. It looks like you were originally having trouble with quality updates to Version 1709.

Somewhere in checking for updates it must have attempted to upgrade to new 'feature' version 1803, and after that point, restored back to Version 1709. If that is true, and your system is behaving normally except for update error messages in update history, I suggest you stop manually checking for updates. If you read this forum, and others, you will see that many early adopters of Version 1803 are having problems with the upgrade, including black screens. Wait for Microsoft to roll out Version 1803 to your system. When you manually 'check for updates', you short circuit the version upgrade roll-out process and are considered to be seeking that upgrade.

Nothing wrong with delaying a version upgrade to let Microsoft work out the kinks. It is easy to get anxious when your system reports a monthly (quality) windows update failure. Lots of systems experience these failures. Waiting till the next month's update is an ok solution, as opposed to hours of troubleshooting, sometimes rendering a system inoperable. I have started doing a system image backup prior to each month's windows update because the windows update process is error-prone. It is especially important to have at least an external data backup before upgrading to a new Windows version, which is happening twice a year now.

NanCcan: I am glad your system got updated to OS Build 16299.431. That is the latest OS build for Version 1709. You can see the updates and related build numbers on Normally Windows issues monthly quality/security updates starting on the second Tuesday of each month. It may take a couple of days for that update to be pushed out to your computer. Those quality updates are cumulative, meaning that the May quality update will include previous quality updates that may not have been installed on your computer. If Feb 2018 update fails to install, the next month's cumulative update will include the Feb changes when it installs.

Occasionally MSFT will issue additional quality updates at some date after the regular second Tuesday. I usually just wait to install updates until MSFT pushes the update to my system and notifies me. There are other periodic updates such as those for Flash, the malicious software removal tool, and drivers that may be pushed to your system. Since they do not change the OS Build, they are not listed on the update history post above. Twice a year, MSFT issues 'feature updates' which are new versions of Windows 10. Version 1803 was released in early May. Version upgrades are major re-builds of Windows, and can take a long time to download and install.

Microsoft rolls out the version upgrades over time, using info it collects about individual systems, with the objective of minimizing disruptions to systems. After reading about problems others encountered when trying to do version upgrades, I got third-party software to make a system image backup of my entire disk drive: data, applications, and Windows. If an upgrade/update fails and corrupts your system, even if you have a data backup, you have to go through a process to rebuild/repair/reinstall Windows. Reloading a system image from backup allows you to avoid the Windows recovery process hassle. Whether you want to do system image backups depends upon the criticality of your system, and how much effort you want to have to put forth if some future Windows update/upgrade corrupts Windows. If you haven't done it yet, you should make 'factory recovery' disks that enable you to restore your computer to the condition it was when you bought it. Info on doing that should be at your system manufacturer's support site.

(Note that even if you have factory recovery disks, recovering a corrupted system with them is not fail-safe.) I can't answer your question about re-installing Flash. I use Windows browsers, which have Flash included. Flash is considered a security problem, and many advise not installing Flash unless you are sure you actually need it. Supposedly Flash will be gone by 2020. See security reporter Brian Krebs If you don't need Flash, don't install it. Hope this helps.