Please note: After the troubleshooting, make sure to boot your computer to normal mode by following the step 7. Method 4: R eset Windows update components from the following link and check.
To do so: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
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Step 4: In the pop-up command line window, type the following commands one by one and hit Enter after each command. Please click OK when each prompt occurs. Step 5: Now you can exit and close the command prompt window. And you need to enter Service window again and find out Windows Update by clicking Start in the context menu to start the Windows Update service.
After all steps are finished, you can restart your computer and run check for updates and check whether the issue the Windows cannot check for updates as the service is not running is solved. As a matter of fact, to fix the issue Windows cannot check for update, you can try to run Windows Update Troubleshooter.
And here, you can go on fixing the issue Windows Update cannot currently check for updates by following the steps. If there is no Windows Update Troubleshooter in your computer, you can click here to download and install it. Step 1: Click Start button and type troubleshoot in the search box of Windows 7 and choose Troubleshooting to continue.
Step 2: In the popup window, choose Fix problems with Windows Update under the System and Security section to continue. Step 3: Next, you can click the Next button to go on.
Then Windows Update Troubleshooter will detect the problem automatically. This process may take some time and you need to wait patiently. Step 4: If there are some problems with your computer, the Windows Update Troubleshooter will list the problems and fix them. After the whole process is finished, you can close Windows Update Troubleshooter and restart your computer to check whether the issue Windows update cannot currently check for updates is solved.
The issue Windows update cannot currently check for updates may be caused by the outdated RST driver. Then install it on your computer. Please make sure the driver you choose is compatible with your computer. After that, please reboot your computer to take effect and check whether the issue Windows update cannot currently check for updates is solved.
Now, we will show you the last method to the issue Windows update cannot currently check for updates. You can try resetting the Windows update repository.
Step 2: In the Command Line window, input the following commands and hit Enter after each command. When all steps are finished, try to check whether the issue Windows 7 cannot check for update is solved. I encountered the issue Windows Update cannot currently check for updates when trying to update the Windows OS.
And this post successfully helped me to fix this problem. Click to tweet. After you have solved the issue Windows update cannot currently check for update, you had better create a system image to keep your PC safe. And when you encounter this issue again or some other problem, you can use the system image created before to restore your computer to a normal state directly. As for creating a system image, MiniTool ShadowMaker, the professional backup software , is strongly recommended.
It can help you to back up files, folders, disks and partition. In addition, MiniTool ShadowMaker is also a clone tool, which can help you to clone OS to another hard drive without data loss. So, just get MiniTool ShadowMaker Trial to have a try or you can choose to purchase an advanced edition. Initially made the mistake of stopping the service through the control panel, then I followed the directions exactly and it worked, quick and easy.
I'm so thankful that it's the first time I ever donated to a web site like this. Herbert Anchovy January 5, pm. David S January 5, pm. Thank you for this page of help, step 2, so simple why doesnt Microsoft have it available!!.
Worked perfectly for me. Katie January 5, am. Seb January 4, pm. Jinon January 4, pm. Jesse January 3, pm. Judi January 1, pm. Good work. Method 2 worked on Win 7 Home Premium on Dell desktop and note book. Can't buy a thrill?!! Yes you can. Thanks so much. Jack December 27, pm.
Phil December 29, am. Rita December 30, pm. Bill December 30, pm. This fix actually worked on a Dell workstation running Win 7 SP1 after wasting nearly a month reviewing and analyzing numerous questionable, lengthy and complicated fix methods that were either rejected or didn't work.
Thanks a bunch!!! Thanks a lot for that very simple and effective fix! Update history preserved, unlike other earlier method I used three weeks ago on another Windows-7 system. Rey January 2, am. Jo January 2, am. Rich January 2, pm. Zvi January 5, am. Worked like a charm — simple and quick. BUT all the responses in a very few days raise the question of why so many of us ran into the same problem at the same time.
Any ideas? Lisa January 5, am. Thanks very much Al, this worked. I'm no computer whizz so very grateful to folk like you who make these things simple for numpties like me!! Happy New Year! Paul January 5, pm. The Hammer January 5, pm. Bill January 5, pm. Diane January 6, am. SteelyGeoff January 8, am.
Rose January 12, am. Terri January 14, am. Umberto January 14, pm. Gary January 19, am. Debbi January 30, pm. Matt December 23, pm. Janusz December 22, pm. I tried running the WindowsUpdateDiagnostic tool which did not work. I then tried the following which did get Windows Update working for Win7. Johan January 9, pm.
Mohammed December 22, am. Matt December 21, am. I've recently had to use the second manual solution on two Windows 7 Pro bit systems. Forcing it to create a new SoftwareDistribution folder gets it back on track. Many thanks! This is good for people who are using window at home.
But if you are going to try this method at any professional environment then its mean you have to download all the updates from the first day of your window installation. I don't recommend this method for professional environment. TechBasix December 20, pm. Tony Coy December 19, pm. Microsoft were no help whatsoever, I'm so pleased I stumbled on your site. Solution 1 worked straight away. A small donation on it's way. Yash December 19, pm.
Thanks so much for your solution. I especially liked your recommendation for the renaming instead of deleting.
Nina December 17, pm. MikeD December 15, pm. Justin December 14, pm. The link in Solution 1 actually works, even though the Microsoft Fix It utility is gone. Further steps continue to troubleshoot the issue if the Windows Update troubleshooter program doesn't fix it.
Alex Mason December 13, pm. NetSurf December 13, pm. Solution 4 worked for me. Tried all the others on this site and others and was down to considering a rebuild, but the Intel RTS install downloaded from site rts site posted in article. Jan December 13, am. Guy December 12, pm. Jay V December 11, am. Michael December 10, pm. After struggling for five frustrating hours I found your site and Solution 2 worked first time.
David December 9, pm. Many thanks for this very helpful information. Solution 2 fixed it for me. Janet December 9, am. D December 9, am. Option 2 worked flawlessly. Very well explained and documented steps you have provided. Well done, and thank you. I deleted the folder instead of rename and it worked fine showed new updates and downloading.
Zdenko December 7, am. Dave December 6, pm. Harry December 5, pm. Dick Monti December 5, am. Stefan December 5, am. Nomeca December 5, am. So far, so good. Solved my problem using 2.
Utterly grateful for the directions. Have a Happy Holiday! Thanks, it appears to be working solution 2. Too bad Microsoft can't write decent software. Martin December 4, pm. Skyrider November 29, am. None of them worked… step 4 results in a message stating that my device doesn't meet compatibility requirements, yet I'm running an HP with Windows 7 Pro as the administrator…. Any other suggestions? Anshuman October 17, pm. Really thank u the second solution worked for me and please also provide solution on how to install Microsoft net framework 4.
Jimmy D October 10, pm. Thing after thing i tried before this and all were a waste of time,,, but this did it. This fixed update problems like a champ and easily. Tuan To August 20, am. Moty August 5, am. Andy Louis July 26, am. Andrew July 10, am. Tea June 18, am. I want to try solution 2, but when I go to services the windows update is not there. I'm unable to turn on network discovery also or turn off the windows firewall.
I get the service is not installed error. I have already went to enabled started automatic all of the recommended services. I'm almost lost all hope.
Tea: Download and import to your registry this reg file: wuauserv. O'na June 16, am. John June 14, am. Ganesh June 13, pm. Mario June 6, am.
Halim June 1, pm. James April 26, pm. Pura Moca April 20, pm. Peaceandlove April 15, am. Save any Open files and restart computer, and then try to check for new updates". Peaceandlove: 1. Install Internet Explorer 11 3. Install the KB security update 4. Try to update your computer. When i try to use solution 2, after stopiing and renaming the folder once i start the windows update it creates a new folder SofwareDistribution and again gave me same errror?
Knut April 13, pm. Would advise check clock first. Vinod April 1, pm. Sereue March 9, pm. George Michael March 3, pm. Medhansh March 1, am. Anne February 28, pm. Tim Durian February 18, am. Hello, Long story cut short, but my updates were not working at all. Iyke January 24, am.
AP January 18, pm. Lekan Bamigbade January 12, pm. Patrick January 11, pm. Beko January 9, pm. Any further help will be greatly appreciated. I tried all the three solutions but none worked for my HP pavilion g6 notebook. I noticed that there is no "windows update" listed when i carried out the step 1 of solution 2 by opening the services local window. Someone should please help out. Nabeel December 16, am. Rajsekhar chukka December 15, am. I went through them in order and tried them all twice.
Solution 4 was the one that worked for me! Gwati December 7, am. Jerry December 5, am. Faisal Nawaz December 3, am. Alok November 30, am. I must have shut down Vista before the updates had a chance to fully complete the process. My bad. I have used Step 2 above. It is now going through a very l-o-n-g process of checking the updates already installed on my Vista against the Windows download site. It is also rebuilding the "SoftwareDistribution" folder. If you noticed 5 in Step 3, it said to check for updates then "Leave your computer about an hour to find Updates.
Hopefully that will do the trick. But for now I'm waiting to give Step 2 a chance to finish. LOL, in an age of instant everything, patience is truly a virtue. B November 1, pm. Amy October 21, pm. Mike October 9, am. I tried Step 2, but there was no Windows update in that folder.
It just was not on the list. Mike: Please read more carefully before comment…The name of the folder is "SoftwareDistribution". Herman October 6, pm.
Max October 2, am. Yuran September 28, am. Pinoy September 23, am. Peter September 21, pm. Sahil Jagotra September 21, pm. Solution 2 worked fine. It showed error again but after about 1 minute, it started updating automatically. Carter September 9, am.
TONY September 6, am. Barbour August 30, am. I have been searching for days for a solution after Windows Fixit didn't work. Your solution 2 worked like magic! Steve August 21, pm. Awesome fix and directions! Option 2 solved my intransigent problem with Windows Update!! XavDeb July 27, pm. BJ July 8, am.
Greg June 24, am. Should I just install version available from Intel? Sweepkins June 22, am. David June 18, am. Hotshot May 27, pm. Jeremy May 20, pm. Windows fix was useless. Your Solution 2 did the job. Why don't Microsoft know this? Tracey Gould May 15, am. I tried every single one of these, and have been trying to fix this problem for too many hours. Then I googled the error code instead of the error message and 2 minutes later my windows were updating. Hope this saves others some time.
Rylene May 6, am. I'm glad I bumped into your website. The steps you provided fixed the Windows update error which I have been trying to fix for several months in a matter of minutes. Dan May 1, am. Had to reinstall Win7U from a system image dated three years ago, got to the point of checking Windows Update, got the dreaded "service is not running", tried several fixes offered by Microsoft itself to no avail, and then learned to delete the Software Distribution Folder here, and after hours of frustration, success.
Sad Microsoft is so useless, but glad google found your site! Carlos April 29, pm. Mufid April 20, pm. J April 17, pm. Dilshad April 17, pm. Miled Rizk April 11, pm. Ayman Alansary April 8, pm. S Ramachandran March 4, am. Dear Sirs, Thanks a lot. I am not an expert in computer and was afraid of dealing with program files. But your instructions were precise and I could execute the steps without any problem.
Hello, I tried Solution 2, after I typed: services. I could not find "Windows Update service". What should I do? Carl February 16, am. Jishnu February 5, pm. Alceu February 3, am. Bruce Wayne February 3, am. Victor Meyer January 21, am. Carol January 19, pm. Step 2 worked like a charm. It also fixed other issues with certain programs that weren't opening.
Rina January 4, pm. Heather January 3, am. Tony December 27, am. Majika December 18, pm. Ben McCarthy December 4, pm. Dan December 4, am. For those who have tried everything and failed, try downloading. Net Framework 4. Aadil October 27, pm. Ndosi October 19, pm. It's really working. I'm unspeakably happy for I have been looking for solution for days without getting help. If offering you my girlfriend would make you happier and smarter, I would have done so!!!
Ralnavman October 18, pm. Solution 2 worked for me on a quite old unused netbook running Windows 7. I did it on mine as I didn't have any other indication……ended up with updates!!! Dave October 16, am. Thank you very much for the information. I started with step 2, It took around 4 minutes for windows update to be working.
Currently downloading, "18 important updates". Win 7 64bit. Andrius October 14, pm. Utkarsh September 18, pm. Rebecca September 17, pm.
Invisitr0n September 15, am. I had this same issue, but my services were running, and restarting services did not help. My issue was windows firewall was disabled, enabling it let me search for updates. Win 7 ultimate x Admin September 3, pm. Paul August 30, am. Alex August 24, pm. Anna August 22, am. Bill August 19, am. Norris August 14, pm. Alhan August 1, am. Paul July 31, pm. Well, Hallelujah!!!!
Having struggled with this for months I followed your steps. Had to go all the way to step 3 but it worked!! Mr Eyesopen July 29, pm. Rob July 29, am. Christopher Assun July 27, pm. Mike July 24, am. Updates working now, don't know if it was just the Intel Rapid Storage Technology that was disabled which was stopping the Windows update from not working.
Followed all the steps. Champak lal July 23, pm. Blake July 10, am. I even got Defender to run as well. Val July 1, pm. Nick June 28, pm. Worked, manual instructions worked like a treat, i suppose this has something to do with the file windows update uses being corrupt or it cant find it, fixed now, thanks very much! Nguyen Huu Phi June 28, am. Gary June 17, am. Danny June 14, am. Rita June 4, pm. Andy May 29, pm.
Huni May 14, pm. I had this problem this problem for a very long time. Stumbling upon your post is a miracle. Thank you so much for this! Stephen May 14, am.
Pingu May 13, pm. I tried the first solution but it didnt work for me, tried the second and it worked perfectly…Thanks again. Bhavya May 12, pm. Mak May 11, am. Hi wintips, Solution 1 does not work. Solution 2 works for me. I am happy and I had donated small token to you. Thanks for the help :. Noor April 10, pm. Lee April 9, am. Inge March 28, pm. Thank you very much, windows own fix couldnt fix this but your help did, thank you!
Solution 2 Tried to fix this many times without luck but now its working! Uzair March 27, pm. Dave March 25, pm. JMA March 25, am. Jon March 23, pm. Thankyou so much! I have no idea why Intel Rapid Storage management has anything to do with windows file systems, but updated it and it worked. Rahab March 14, pm. Yes SoftwareDistribution is a folder and i guess it was not there for me to delete.
I finally made it work after I used the troupeshooter to identify my error number which was 0x Here is the link:.
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