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Endless Windows Update Errors, now 800B0100 and 8024200D
I've been struggling with Windows Update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've had a series of different error codes, and after trying seemingly endless interventions, the current codes I'm receiving are:
800B0100
8024200D
The first has been there since the beginning. I've had a number of other different codes along the way, prior to the current state.
After searching, I've tried like a zillion MS FixIt tools, CheckSUR (a few times now), WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab, which initially found several problems it couldn't fix, but after various interventions, now reports everything good. sfc /scannow finds no issues.
I don't believe it's directly the source of the problem, but the origin of this system is unusual. This is a VM running under Parallels on an iMac. I migrated a Dell XPS 8300 to a VM, and then uninstalled a bunch of software I didn't need.
That system was running Win7 Ultimate x64, but I only have an extra license/key for Win7 Pro, so I cloned the VM, in order to downgrade it to Pro. Downgrading required a couple of minor registry edits (from Ultimate to Professional) to get past install checks, and I had to uninstall SP1 to get past the installer claiming the current install was newer than my install disc.
Did an in-place upgrade install. Worked fine. Cleaned out some more software I didn't need. Started running Windows Update -- naturally, I ended up with a few hundred updates required, and had to go through multiple restart/update cycles to see and install them.
Everything was going fine. The system was performing well -- and booting much, much faster than it had been. Then with maybe a dozen updates left to go, including IE updates for 8, and new updates to install IE, 9, 10 and 11, started getting Windows update errors.
Tried everything I could find via google. Did get a few updates installed along the way, but still have the same basic issue. Having tried so many things, I now no longer have any restore points going back to before the problem. Hoping I can find a way to fix this, rather than having to revert to cloning the original VM again, and having to repeat the laborious downgrade and windows update process.
Any suggestions? Happy to run diagnostics that may help.
Jonathan