{"id":923,"date":"2017-05-26T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=923"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:16:09","slug":"windows-7-reset-windows-update-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 &#8211; reset Windows Update Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This minor reset\u00a0can be used when Windows 7 fails to find updates i.e progress\u00a0bar never stops.<\/p>\n<p>Open an elevated command prompt and run these commands:<\/p>\n<pre>net stop wuauserv\r\nnet stop cryptsvc<\/pre>\n<p>Delete or rename %windir%\\SoftwareDistribution directory<br \/>\nDelete or rename %windir%\\System32\\catroot2<\/p>\n<p>Restart the services we had previously stopped:<\/p>\n<pre>net start\u00a0wuauserv\r\nnet start\u00a0cryptsvc<\/pre>\n<p>Install latest Windows Update Client from:<\/p>\n<p>W7 64bit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=53332\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=53332<br \/>\n<\/a>W7 32bit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=53335\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=53335<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Restart the computer<br \/>\nYou should then\u00a0be able to check for updates manually and get the PC fully patched<\/p>\n<p>If the above fails, Microsoft have documented a &#8216;hard reset&#8217; at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-au\/kb\/971058\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-au\/kb\/971058<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This minor reset\u00a0can be used when Windows 7 fails to find updates i.e progress\u00a0bar never stops. Open an elevated command prompt and run these commands: net stop wuauserv net stop cryptsvc Delete or rename %windir%\\SoftwareDistribution directory Delete or rename %windir%\\System32\\catroot2 Restart the services we had previously stopped: net start\u00a0wuauserv net start\u00a0cryptsvc Install latest Windows Update <a href='https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=923' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,54],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates","tag-windows","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}