Windows Updates problem - Restart Now Loop

Hello everyone,
i have a problem where i cannot "check for updates". When i open Windows Update i have a message telling me to restart my computer to install important updates.
I have restarted a hell of a lot of times and the message remains. If i press "check for updates" i get the message "Windows update cannot currently check for updates, because you must first restart the computer so that a previous installation
can be completed". Can anyone help? :(

Resolved the problem.
Had to delete all the pending windows updates which were apparently "corrupt" or whatever.
Open regedit - TAKE A BACKUP FIRST.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RebootRequired
This key shows when we install windows update and after the system reboots it gets automatically deleted, in case of corrupt entries in this key the key stays and Keeps promoting for restart, so we have to manually the "rebootRequired"
key.

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