| From: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> | On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:23:10AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > I just solved the problem. I had installed an extra 8G of RAM in the | > machine. Once I removed it, Windows was happy to update. | I noticed that Windows sets aside 2 x RAM for Page File (swapfile). | Does that mean your machine was setting aside 16G swapfile? I think something like that must be going on. But not exactly. When I found the swap file size (at rest, without running the Win10 update program), it was miniscule. | From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> | I had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a virtual machine on my | notebook computer. The update failed for no apparent reason. Also, | this was a W10 to W10 update. Putting more memory in the computer | worked for me too. But my problem was the opposite: I had to REMOVE RAM to make the update work.