Windows 11 updates won’t install

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A bunch of windows updates won’t install. They just say “retry” and every time I retry, it doesn’t work. This is a brand new laptop, and I’ve installed as little software as I could to keep Windows from getting too unstable. Pretty much all I’ve done is uninstall a bunch of OEM preinstalled crap, installed one piece of Intel software necessary for school, and installed powertoys, Firefox, Bitwarden, and WSL. It came with McAfee preinstalled; could there be a part of that that it wouldn’t uninstall and is causing me problems? Did I wait too long to reinstall windows? I’ve only had it for less than a month.

I’d be shocked if it has a virus, I’m really careful about that. I never log into stuff unless I absolutely have to. I pretty much only go online with Firefox to my school’s websites. I try very hard to only install cinema hd software with Winget.

I’ve tried restarting, and that hasn’t fixed it. I don’t know what else I can try, I don’t know much about Windows. I’ve tried to be good about staying on top of updates so it doesn’t have to install too many updates at once, because I don’t want some weird update stuff to happen.

How do I get these updates to install? I have some work I need to get done and I don’t want windows to boot me off so it can update.

If it becomes unusably unstable, I don’t know what I’d be able to do. I don’t have any other Windows computer to create a fresh installation media.

Help!

Further information:

• Dell Inspiron 14 7420 2-in-1

• Intel i7-1255U

• 16Gb ram

• Windows 11 22H2

• OS Build 22621.1265

• Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22638.1000.0