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Guest ytsejamfan
Posted

I have not had this problem until this week. I have been updating Vista

since Feb. without any problems.

 

This week, I started getting the error code 80070005 saying that windows

could not search for new updates.

 

Does anyone know why this is happening? More importantly, does anyone know

how to reslove this?

 

Thanks!

Guest LuisJR02
Posted

I am not sure what causes this, but I found a resolution to the problme

on another forum. If you delete the files in

C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, reboot then run windows update.

Manually run the update process and it should begin and run as normal.

Some of the files will not be allowed to delete due to being in use by

the system. Just skip those files and delete the ones that can be

deleted. This should resolve the problem.

 

 

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Guest Sky King
Posted

Luis, if you first enter "net stop wuauserv" (without the quotes) on the

Start/Run line then you will be able to delete all of that folder.

 

....Sky

 

 

 

In news:LuisJR02.2u3zzi@DoNotSpam.com,

LuisJR02 <LuisJR02.2u3zzi@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what causes this, but I found a resolution to the

> problme on another forum. If you delete the files in

> C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, reboot then run windows update.

> Manually run the update process and it should begin and run as normal.

> Some of the files will not be allowed to delete due to being in use by

> the system. Just skip those files and delete the ones that can be

> deleted. This should resolve the problem.

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