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destinyaguilar000
WARNING:
This post is not tl;dr-er friendly.
It contains a lot of detail. And questions.
I have been having issues with my Windows 8 laptop, I wanted to install updates but they fail every time I try. And the system requires these updates if I want to upgrade to Windows 8. 1 or 10. (I also have trouble with "missing dll files")
I saw this How To Reset Windows update Components on Windows 10
And wanted to try manually reset the update components, to see if it would work. So I tried following the steps and inserted commands into the command prompt in safe mode (F6 on the startup mode in advanced startup)
I have tried this before, a few times. So that may be why it says that there is a duplicate file on some of the above commands.
Though I'm not too sure about "service is not started. "
Would it also be a part of that?
The "℅ALLUSERSPROFILE℅"
Has not been there at all since the first time trying this in the command prompt.
So it gives me "The system cannot find the path specified."
I'm not sure what that means. I know I recently rebooted my entire computer and I currently only have registered 1 user, (online Microsoft account [currently switched to the offline local].)
So I hunt for the Users in file explorer and see the file folder for my account and Public
I look into Environment variables from the User settings.
From that little window I have no idea where to go from there. Should I use that and enter it into the command prompt instead?
Could there be an issue in the system variables underneath? What should they have/read?
I have also been having issues with the 'exe' command codes. In the command prompt.My computer tells me it's "not recogized as an internal or external command... "The code in the link above seems to be written in with some spaces in between. I am not an expert at this, I am completely clueless to why it doesn't seem to work.
I skipped ahead to the next part which was
The .dll files. And the computer didn't seem to notify me of anything when I hit enter.
After that was the registry edit step:
" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS
Right-click COMPONENTS. Now in the right-pane, delete the following if they exist:
Although I couldn't find the Components subfolder anywhere. And None of the three listed above.
could they be hidden somewhere else?
(I used file explorer to locate them on "Computer" and they didn't show up)
After the registry edit, the next step is to reset the network configuration using the commands:
ipconfig /flushdns
(it said could not flush the dns resolver cache. It failed during execution. Is there a way to fix that? Or is it nothing to worry about?)
netsh winsock reset
netsh winsock reset proxy
(the next two commands were successfully reset. And now it just needs a restart in order to complete the reset. )
All that's left after that is to start the
net services. But I did not want to proceed just yet, because there were some issues and questions I am not sure of. I appreciate all the help!
Continue reading...
This post is not tl;dr-er friendly.
It contains a lot of detail. And questions.
I have been having issues with my Windows 8 laptop, I wanted to install updates but they fail every time I try. And the system requires these updates if I want to upgrade to Windows 8. 1 or 10. (I also have trouble with "missing dll files")
I saw this How To Reset Windows update Components on Windows 10
And wanted to try manually reset the update components, to see if it would work. So I tried following the steps and inserted commands into the command prompt in safe mode (F6 on the startup mode in advanced startup)
I have tried this before, a few times. So that may be why it says that there is a duplicate file on some of the above commands.
Though I'm not too sure about "service is not started. "
Would it also be a part of that?
The "℅ALLUSERSPROFILE℅"
Has not been there at all since the first time trying this in the command prompt.
So it gives me "The system cannot find the path specified."
I'm not sure what that means. I know I recently rebooted my entire computer and I currently only have registered 1 user, (online Microsoft account [currently switched to the offline local].)
So I hunt for the Users in file explorer and see the file folder for my account and Public
I look into Environment variables from the User settings.
From that little window I have no idea where to go from there. Should I use that and enter it into the command prompt instead?
Could there be an issue in the system variables underneath? What should they have/read?
I have also been having issues with the 'exe' command codes. In the command prompt.My computer tells me it's "not recogized as an internal or external command... "The code in the link above seems to be written in with some spaces in between. I am not an expert at this, I am completely clueless to why it doesn't seem to work.
I skipped ahead to the next part which was
The .dll files. And the computer didn't seem to notify me of anything when I hit enter.
After that was the registry edit step:
" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS
Right-click COMPONENTS. Now in the right-pane, delete the following if they exist:
- PendingXmlIdentifier
- NextQueueEntryIndex
- AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
Although I couldn't find the Components subfolder anywhere. And None of the three listed above.
could they be hidden somewhere else?
(I used file explorer to locate them on "Computer" and they didn't show up)
After the registry edit, the next step is to reset the network configuration using the commands:
ipconfig /flushdns
(it said could not flush the dns resolver cache. It failed during execution. Is there a way to fix that? Or is it nothing to worry about?)
netsh winsock reset
netsh winsock reset proxy
(the next two commands were successfully reset. And now it just needs a restart in order to complete the reset. )
All that's left after that is to start the
net services. But I did not want to proceed just yet, because there were some issues and questions I am not sure of. I appreciate all the help!
Continue reading...