Your device is missing important security and quality fixes: how to deal with this issue?

About the "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes" issue

Microsoft cares about the security and performance of its operating systems, which is why Windows 10/11 is updated quite often. The process of updating your PC itself almost always goes without problems, as it is done automatically.

However, there are exceptions here! Some users have reported that they are unable to perform a system update, even an automatic update, and receive the error message "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes" in Windows 10/11. This article will help you solve this problem and will also offer help in recovering lost files due to this problem.

2. Use Microsoft Update website

Again, go to the Settings section and click System.

In the new window, go to the left sidebar, scroll down and click About. Here, open the section "Device Specifications" and you will see "System Type".

Now go to the official Microsoft Update website and download the latest SSU that matches your version.

After that, restart your computer, restart Windows Update and start downloading updates.

4. Reset services

You can manually reset the update service as follows:

Open Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”.

Next, enter the following commands one by one:

clean stop wuauserv, then press the Enter.

clean stop bits net stop msiserver, then press Enter.

Ren C: WindowsSoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old, then press Enter.

Ren C: WindowsSystem32catroot2 Catroot2.old, then press Enter.

clean start wuauserv, then press Enter.

clean start cryptSvc, then press Enter.

clean start bits, then press Enter.

clean start msiserver, then press Enter.

Now reboot and check if Windows Update is working properly or not.

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