Saturday, June 16, 2012

Windows 7 Updates (service not running error)

Today, I brought back up an old machine of mine running windows 7.  It had been a good 6 months since I've last used it, so naturally, windows updates was not working.

I managed to find a nice thread on social.technet:  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/6a8889a8-65b2-4012-9cf8-2689f47b21e4


stop Windows Update Service


delete C:\windows\softwaredistribution\*.*


start Windows Update Service


check for updates




Hope this helps if you run into the same issue.

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