Full Reset Windows Updates

Adam Gurrie
2019-02-07 22:40

1. Press Windows Key + X on the keyboard and then select “Command Prompt (Admin)”/"PowerShell Admin" from the menu.

2. Stop the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. To do this, type the following commands at a command prompt. Press the “ENTER” key after you type each command.

net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver

3. Now rename the SoftwareDistribution and Catroot2 folder. You can do this by typing the following commands in the Command Prompt/PowerShell. Press the “ENTER” key after you type each command.

ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old

4. Now, let’s restart the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services. Type the following commands in the Command Prompt/PowerShell for this. Press the ENTER key after you type each command.

net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver

5. Type Exit in the Command Prompt/PowerShell to close it and then restart the computer.

6.After restarting the computer, now retry to install Windows Updates.

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