Win7 Pro 64-Bit: Update Wervice not running...recent issue

Ranger4 said:

Resetting the date back a few days after turning off Time Synchronisation, doing a restart will allow Windows to Update to the date you reset it too.

When you reset the Time Synch & change the date to today's date, it will display a warning that the Update Service failed & it suggests Try Again, but that results in the same thing.

At least now I can see the Update History that previously was completely blank. There is a serious problem somewhere & it's most likely at Microsoft end, so I suppose we will have to wait for a fix.

When the computer boots up it runs the Windows Update check during the starting up procedure, so this is completely out of the users control. It seems that this is the most likely way this has suddenly appeared.

That's right, the issue is on Microsoft's side... As most of the times e.e

I even remember how in the past some updates caused issues to some computers like high cpu usage (one computer I fixed had that issue due to one of the security updates Microsoft released back then).

Yesterday, I deleted Software Distribution Folder on my 2 PCs and the update worked throughout the day, though I lost the histories.

Now today, on morning boot-up both machines show the red "x" !!

Microsoft needs to address this now.

Thanks for letting us know. I was gong to try that today, hopefully MS is working on a patch..

Sniggler said:

Yesterday, I deleted Software Distribution Folder on my 2 PCs and the update worked throughout the day, though I lost the histories.

Now today, on morning boot-up both machines show the red "x" !!

Microsoft needs to address this now.

For me all ok now. Windows update and Microsoft update work ok, but i deleted whole softwaredistribution folder.

Again, got the red x this AM and ran check for updates...

Check for updates resulted in a ton of old hidden updates. Took me 2-3 hide update attempts before they went back into oblivion.... with the exception of Silverlight!

Can't seem to get rid of the Silverlight optional update. keeps coming back and back.. any ideas??

Good luck everyone...we will see what happens tomorrow!

Yes Owner, let us know how it goes tomorrow..

TheOwner said:

For me all ok now. Windows update and Microsoft update work ok, but i deleted whole softwaredistribution folder.

Are you talking about date and time> internet time> unticking synchronizing using the with an internet time server when you say "I turned off auto time settings" In other words how are you turning off auto time setting? I'd like to give this your solution a try...

Ranger4 said:

Updating on mine now seems to be fixed.

I turned off auto time setting, back dated the computer to the 3 Dec 2017, rebooted & ran Windows Update, it updated to the 3rd.

I then rebooted, reset auto time setting, changed computer date to today's date, re ran Windows Update & it checked & came back with Windows is up to date, with the time check also being current.

So it seems to be working now. No Try Again messages, no Red failure warnings. Also all Update settings have been returned to their original settings & all Windows Update History is intact.

Incidentally there is no indication of any update on the cause of the problem.