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a Windows 7 PC? Recently, I was working with a client and they had an issue updating their Windows 7 PC. Basically, whenever they tried to run a check for updates,
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they would get the following error message: Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, windows 7 won't download updates because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer. Of course, restarting did not help. When windows 7 can't find updates we checked if the Windows Update Service was running, we found that it was running. So now we were confused. In this situation, you can solve the problem by deleting all the currently
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downloaded updates and retrying. Sometimes an update gets corrupted and then Windows gets confused and thinks the service is no longer running. The first thing to do is to stop the Windows Update service on your Windows 7 machine. You can do this by going to Start and typing in services.msc in the search box. Next, press Enter and the Windows Services dialog will appear. Now
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scroll down until you see the Windows Update service, right-click on it and choose Stop. Now that the Windows Update service has been disabled, you need to go to the following folder and delete all the files and folders inside of it: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\ Once you have deleted everything, go back to the Services dialog and right-click on the Windows Update service and choose Start. All the files and folders will be re-created and hopefully you can start downloading updates for your PC. If you’re still having problems, make sure to check out our previous posts on removing and reinstalling all Windows Updates, troubleshooting An Update Failed to Install error, and fixing Windows Update Error Code 8E5E03FA. June 4th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore File in: Windows 7 There are 161 comments, care to add yours? Tweet Like Google+ Comments [161] curtieuk says: 6 years ago Thanks this was really helpful. I had a completely new installation that wouldn't update at all. Clearly a Windows 7 bug as many people are struggling with this. Kurt starquest9 says: 6 years ago I am also having the same problem. I just recently upgraded my Lenovo SL510 Laptop to a Western Digital 75
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updates. Reverting changes RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows errors and improve system performance If your Windows 10/8/7 system gives you a message Failure configuring Windows updates, Reverting changes, Do not turn off your computer message, then this post may help you troubleshoot the issue. Failure configuring updates. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer If you are facing this issue, your computer will normally take 20-30 minutes to revert the changes. Here are a few steps you may want to try and see if it helps resolve your problem. 1] First, you should try and restart your Windows computer and then try to install Windows Updates again. See if this helps. 2] If it does not, then run the Windows Update Troubleshooter. Although Windows includes a built-in troubleshooter, download one from there as it includes more fixes. 3] Perform a System Restore operation and then try again. 4] Run msconfig.exe, select the Services tab, select Hide all Microsoft services and Disable all and Exit. Now restart your computer and run Windows Update. 5] Start your computer in Clean Boot State and see if you can now install the Windows Updates. Installing Windows updates in a clean boot state prevents them being blocked by some Windows Services and software - includings security software. 6] Navigate to C\Windows\WinSxS\ folder, search for a pending.xml file and rename it. You may even delete it. This will allow Windows Update to delete pending tasks and build a fresh new update check. See if this helps. 7] Run System File Checker. 8] Use the Deployment Imaging and Servicing Management (DISM) tool. Advertisement ^ Run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth first. Then run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth to repair your Windows Image. Once the scan is completed, restart and try again. 9] Navigate to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder and delete its contents. Restart you computer and try now. 10] Repair your Windows installation. Windows 8 users may want to consider a Refresh or Reset operation. OEM users may want to consider a factory reset. Stuck in a reboot loop If your computer gets into an endless reboot loop, try to get into Safe Mode or access Advanced Boot Options. Here you can open a command prompt windows or system restore or perform an Automatic Repair. Windows 7 users may want to consider repairing Windows 7. Let us know if anythin