Can the update status of Edge affect Windows Update itself?
BACKGROUND: Repeated failed attempts to install KB2267602 on Windows 10 x64 where 21H2 has not yet been installed. The following did not help:
Open Elevated Command Prompt Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image> /ScanHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth sfc /SCANNOW [no problems detected] Restart systemAlso followed the suggestions here:
But after opening Edge and updating Edge, I checked for Windows updates once again, and KB2267602 was gone.
Was this a coincidence or can the update status of Edge affect Windows Update itself?
1 Answer
KB2267602 is a new definition update for Windows Defender Antivirus, so I don't see the connection between it and Edge. I think it's more likely that the problematic KB2267602 update itself was quietly improved by Microsoft, meaning replaced, while you were updating Edge.
Users had problems with KB2267602 since April 2021, as seen in the postWindows 10 Updates - KB2267602 Security Intelligence update Fails to Install, where users have remarked on this update having pretty strange dependencies.
This is then an old update from one year ago that nowadays may conflict with newer updates. I don't think that there is any special reason to install it, as it surely was superseded since then.
A user in the linked post has remarked that the best way to insure that the Windows Defender signatures were up to date is to run an elevated CMD and enter these commands:
cd %ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender
MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures
MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate
