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UPDATE:
It appears I have discovered what the issue was with my problem machine here. Our System Essentials VM was off and our GP pushes windows update settings to use it. Interesting that other machines on the domain aren't showing the same issue but this computer is definitely not doing updates as a result of this. If I turn on the VM, windows update works, if I pause/turn off the VM, update fails.
So what does this mean for the OP? Not quite sure at this point. My issue was surely GP/Domain related so it doesn't really apply to the OP. To throw it out there because I didn't see it posted in this thread, have you tried running the FixIT utility from Microsoft yet? Although it says Vista on it, it is the correct tool for Win7 as well. Check your proxy settings in IE, reset IE to default settings to be sure. Check your hosts file for any entries. Make SURE your computer is clean of infection/malware. Also remove your AV/AS if necessary once you're sure it is clean(you can always reinstall), disable windows firewall and defender and try the update again. At this point that's all I can think of for you to try. If anything else comes to mind I'll surely post it.
Good luck, if you do resolve things please let us know what did it, I'd be very interested to hear the resolution for this.
Last edited by TCG; 15 Apr 2011 at 13:52.