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Monday, 20 June 2016

Windows Update - no downloads happen - now no updates are shown

Source: www.sysnative.com --- Sunday, June 19, 2016
Win 7 64-bit SP1 Acer laptop Last successful Windows Update - 5/11/2016 This morning (6/19/2016) I tried to run Windows Update. There was a list of 28 Important updates to be done. I took the default which was to select them all. After a very long time, there was no progress on downloading these updates - still 0 - which had never happened before. I stopped the update attempt, and selected a single small sized update, and again, no progress after a long time. I next did some research on the Internet about this, and tried: 1) stop 3 services - renamed \system32\catroot2 and SoftwareDistribution 2) restarted the 3 services Retried Windows Update - nothing showed up in the list, and after a very long time I cancelled it When these Windows Updates are happening - svchost.exe runs at 50% CPU but nothing else is consuming CPU or disk I/Os Next - I ran the Windows Update Mr Fixit - no help Next - I ran Windows Update Diagnostics which gives a Windows Update Error 0x80070057 every run of this shows: . Service registration is missing or corrupt - Fixed Reset service registration - Completed . Windows Update error 0x80070057 - Fixed (not really fixed given the above error) Resetting Windows Update data store Completed . Problems installing recent updates - Fixed Repair Windows Update - Completed Next - I ran SURT - no help sfc /scannow shows no errors. I tried the registry change here: BEST FIX: Steps to Fix Windows Update Error x8757 No h ...



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