It all started a week or 2 ago, when Windows Update said there were maybe 2 updates ready, plus the standard malicious software removal update. I think one of them may have been a patch for Windows 7 SP1 (or maybe it WAS SP1). Everything seemed to go normally. There was no restart prompt.
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Hi, I got windows update error with error code 80080005. I tried NETSH WINSOCK RESET as Noel said in the other post, I changed the window update setting, I deleted all the files in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\ as someone has suggested, and uninstalled Malawarebytes (antispyware) and Norton...
For a while I have had issues with the Microsoft updates in that if I ever tried to initiate a check for updates manually myself "check for updates" it would fail and bring up te above error code 80080005 however the automatic updates worked (I would see an orange coloured icon in the bottom...
Hello,
I have an older laptop that I'd like to gift to some teenagers and I'm trying to get it to the point of hand off without wiping the drive; that way it still has Office, etc.
Unfortunately, I think it crashed during an update a couple of years ago. This seems to have generated the...
I kept getting the error code 80080005 when my computer tried to update. I tried what Noel said to do in another post and it did not work, but it did have my computer alert me of updates that needed installing. Once installed I started the update windows again and it is now been searching for...