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Update error 0x80070005 & endlessly searching for updates.
I recently did a disk image to move my os to a SSD. It had all my drivers and a few games and programs added by me. I'm not sure if the problem was happening before the move or not, didn't notice until after the move. I went about setting the computer up how I wanted, installed tons of stuff. Then eventually I noticed it would indefinitely search for updates, and so I went on looking for ways to fix this.
I have watched numerous videos, read numerous forums on this, and tried many things. I will list the things I tried. I first tried manually installing certain update packages that might fix it. I tried checking for viruses and malware, also checking the firewall exceptions on my virus software (norton). I tried stopping BITS and windows update services and then clearing the update cache. I downloading an updated version of windows update agent. Then I tried running windows update diagnostic tool which apparently fixed some problems and gave me the above code saying it failed to fix it, and finally I tried to use the cmd and software called subinacl to manually fix the permissions (not sure about this one working right). I have seen several different commands that are used for this, and I have made multiple different .cmd files that are meant to reset the permissions, from different sources online. I have seen in videos when people run these they zoom through commands on screen, and mine just pops open a cmd window for a second and then it disappears. So each time I'd try something I'd go back to the diagnostic tool to check the error code. Tried microsoft fix it 50202, that didn't work. Tried a program for resetting permissions on registry files from tweaking.com, and it actually made the error code go away when I went back to the diagnostic tool. It didn't fix the indefinite update searching. Left it over night to verify. Then I went back to the diagnostic tool and it had the code again. So on the verge of giving up I searched more, and decided that perhaps my registry was messed up. I found a tool for repairing registry files and it said it found like 200 issues and fixed them. But here's the kicker, I can't even make the error code go away again using the tweaking.com tool. No matter what it can't find updates and the diagnostic tool says windows update error 0x80070005.
Very confused, and at this point I simply don't want to reinstall windows. The process of setting things up for gaming is too much of a pain. I figure I can go on my other windows 7 64 machine and write down a list of the security updates and manually get them if I absolutely can't fix it. It's looking like it's impossible to fix to me. But I hope I'm wrong, it'd be really nice if it would just work the way it's supposed to. I tried attaching the CBS package requested in the instructions, but it gets to 98% and shows a 404 error. So very sorry there. If it's needed I can figure out a way to get that to someone later... it's screwing up for some reason.
Thanks,
Robert
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