How to Fix Errors 0x800f081f on Windows 8.1 Update

I have encountered error 0x800f081f when installing Windows 8.1 in my machine. Once I googled, it seems many users fail to install this update because of error 0x800f081f, 80070020 and 80073712. The most common question was “Windows 8.1 update failing to install with errors 80070020, 80073712 and 0x800f081f”. Most of the proposed solution was to update windows by turn on windows features or manually install the KB2919355 update. You can find the solution which might work for some users. But this did not work for me. Article was “Solved: Windows 8.1 Update 1 Errors 80070020, 80073712 & 0x800f081f”.


Most of the accepted solution was to install that update manually and enable .Net framework 3.5. But this didn’t help me out to fix the issue. It was keep telling same error 0x800f081f. Here what I found and worked for me to save my lifeJ. Hope this solution will help for someone someday.

Step 01:
Open command prompt as an Administrator. Right click on the left bottom corner menu and click "Command Prompt (Admin)".

Step 02:
Update windows using offline mode. For that, Use the windows 8.1 installation DVD or Local copy of the ISO file. Extract the files into your drive. eg: D:/OS/Windows/

Step 03:
Locate the folder "\sources\sxs" within your extracted files. eg: "D:\OS\Windows\sources\sxs". Use this file path in next step.

Step 04:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:"D:\OS\Windows\sources\sxs" /LimitAccess

Paste this command to the command prompt and press enter and wait until it gives a message as shown in bellow image:

Step 05:
Go to the windows features and check whether the .Net Framework 3.5 is enabled. If so you are done.!J

Note: Your can use this steps to install .net framework 2.0 and 3.5 on windows by using offline mode. If you prefer to go with online windows updates please continue. This article is for the user who might face difficulties during the windows 8.1 update error 0x800f081f, 80070020 and 80073712, installing .NET Framework 3.5 features, installing sql server databases, windows server 2012.