Windows update for IE10 on win7 64bit fails with error code 9c59

[MillardS]

Windows update for IE10 on Windows 7 64bit fails continuously with error code 9c59. I tried the stand alone updater with the same results. All other windows updates complete successfully, it's just IE10 that continually fails.

Don't know if this is related but I do have problems with IE8 (current browser). After a while, an open IE window will become non responsive and can't be closed out. I have to use task manager to close it down. I have sent off the reports to MS, but no solution has appeared.

I've attached the cbs file. Let me know what else I can do. Thanks.

 

[NoelDP]

There are no significant file errors in either SFC or CheckSUR logs.

In these cases, it has sometimes been a solution to uninstall IE9, reboot a couple of times, and then reinstall IE9 again, before installing IE10 successfully.
It's worth a try

 

[MillardS]

Thanks for the quick reply. I have never installed IE9, im still running IE8. Should I try to install IE9 and see what happens?

 

[NoelDP]

That would certainly explain the error-message I saw!

Yes - install IE9 first and see if that helps.

 

[MillardS]

Well IE9 fails also. I downloaded the IE9 upgrade and launched it. I get about 1/3 of the way on the green progress bar, and it briefly says starting program, then it opens an IE8 window. And thats where it stops. Task manager says the install program is no longer running, only the IE8 window (its a blank page). I tried again with the IE10 upgrade, and it fails the same way as before. So I'm out of ideas completely.

 

[NoelDP]

Odd - there must be something basic wrong with the IE install for that to happen.

Please repeat the WU Instructions again, and post the full data set - it may give us some clues. Also please post the C:\Windows\windowsupdate.log file