If you find that you are facing any issues in running Windows Updates, including Service Pack, due to any reasons, you might want to check out this Automated Fix It Solution, Windows Update Troubleshooter from Microsoft.
Windows Update Troubleshooter
Open the Windows Update Troubleshooter and follow the on-screen instructions.
The troubleshooter will run and attempt to identify if any problems exist which prevent your computer from downloading and installing Windows Updates.
It will clear the Windows Update related temporary files, clear the contents of the SoftwareDistribution folder, check the status of Windows Update-related Services, repair and reset Windows Update components, check for pending updates and more.
You can let it fix it for you automatically or you can choose to see the fixes and decide to apply them.
If your computer is having problems finding and installing operating system updates, try using this Windows Update troubleshooter to fix the problem.
Windows 10: Open Settings > Updates and security > Troubleshoot tab and run it. Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 has this tool built-in.
Download pages:
- Windows 7/8 users may download it here from Microsoft.
- Windows 10 users may download it here from Microsoft.
You may also use Microsoft’s online troubleshooter to Fix Windows Update Errors.
TIP: Use the Reset Windows Update Components Tool or see this post if your Windows Updates fail to Install.
These links may also interest you:
- Troubleshoot problems with installing Windows Updates in Windows – FAQ
- Installer encountered an error: 0x8007000d, Data is invalid
- Potential Windows Update Database error detected
- Complete Master List of Windows Update Error Codes
- Microsofts CheckSUR Tool to repair Windows Updates
- Windows Update Page Is Blank In Windows
- Fix WU Utility will re-register all required WU dll files in a click
- Troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and Windows Server Update Services
- Unable to install Windows Updates in Windows, Windows Server
- Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes
- Manually reset each Windows Update component
- Service Registration is Missing or Corrupt Windows Update Error
- There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later
- Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes
- Windows Update Error 0x800c0002
- Windows 10 Creators Update not installing
- Your device is at risk because it’s out of date & missing important security & quality updates
- Reset Windows Update Client using PowerShell Script
- Some updates were canceled message
- Service Registration is Missing or Corrupt
- We couldn’t connect to the update service
- How do you reset catroot2 folder in Windows
- How to delete Downloaded, Failed & Pending Windows Updates
- There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later.
- Tags: Troubleshoot, Windows Updates
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I have a feeling this post is going to help a lot of people who don’t take the time to study the error report and the links embedded closely because 2 out of 3 Win7-64 PCs I recently updated to SP1 (1 Desktop, 1 laptop) failed with a cryptic code. I found the troubleshooter (MSFT kind of buries it’s existence in the links in the error report) and it worked to fix the problem(s) in both cases. Granted I have a small sample size right now, but 66% of the machines hitting an SP1 update error seems unbelievably sloppy to me.
When my Windows Update was downloading and installing Service pack 1 and other file there was an error on one update and couldn’t install, but after i pressed Check For Update again it won’t show up. Maybe the system fixed it automatically? now I’m confuse.
When I click on update and security in settings, the screen comes up, but there is nothing I can do. It freezes. How do I correct this?
doesnt help anything. After aplication of this tools it says problems solved, but in fact the problem remains.
Why does Microsoft not provide a simple reimage tool???
Problem: KB3184143 (aka “GWX Remover”) fails to install with error 0x80073712 (ERROR_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT).
0) CCleaner: IE browser (history, cache, cookies), system logs, temporary files, recycling bin, etc, all cleaned away.
00) “double-ought”: Anti-virus disabled until restart (the most AVG allows, could that be problematic on post-POST pre-LOGIN boot-processing of updates?)
1) sfc /scannow (finds no problem, doesn’t solve problem)
2) Windows6.1-KB3184143-x64.msu fails to install manually.
3) “CheckSUR” aka DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth (from the 538 MB Windows6.1-KB947821-v34-x64.msu, fails to find any problems).
4) Rename/Delete C:Windowscatroot2 (problem remains) (including net stop/start cryptsvc)
5) Scan registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINECOMPONENTS) for 3 “bad” entries (PendingXmlIdentifier, NextQueueEntryIndex, AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving) … Entire registry searched, keys, values or data, any part of string, none found.
6) Swearing and shaking fists.
7) Windows Update Troubleshooter: It “fixes” things which were not problems to begin with, recognizes the 0x80073712 problem, and is unable to fix it. Ran tool again, it “found” new problems that it can’t fix, which were “fixed” on previous run, even though they weren’t “broke”.
8) Contemplates purchase of shotgun, for use on self or computer: TBD.
9) Delete/Rename C:WindowsSoftwareDistribution (net stop/start wuauserv/bits)
FYI, insert liberal reboots in between – and multiple attempts and combinations – of the above commands. All to no avail. All other Windows Updates install just fine, first try. It is just this “GWX Remover” which fails to remove a non-existent version of itself.
It is astounding, that this update, whose primary purpose is to uninstall software I had to forcibly remove over a year ago, is unable to not install itself (i.e. uninstall something which doesn’t exist, should be easy to figure out: automatic success), and that no technique, utility, tool, command, option, document, or tip, is able to resolve. I bet if they had attempted to intentionally program such a magnificent failure, they’d fail to do it and we’d have a functional piece of software. “Most Valuable” doesn’t belong in the same sentence, page, website, book, language, planet, galaxy, or universe, as “Microsoft”.
Edit: With “CheckSUR” aka “DISM” command, I also tried
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Which resulted in:
Error: 87
The restorehealth option is not recognized in this context.
When even the last-resort repair tools are broken.
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thanks
My win10 machine is updating over and over now in early 2018. It doesn’t indicate what the update is, so I can’t tell if it doing different updates, or the same one repeatedly. Hard to believe a multibillion $ company can write this sort of crap software.