freefaller
Bronze Level Poster
Received my replacement disk drive on Friday, installed windows and drivers, had been manually updating when windows update stops working. Red cross shield icon displayed with check for updates button, click button receive following message: Windwos Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer.
Opened windows task manager and checked on services tab, windows update is running (wuauserv).
Ran a clean re-install of windows and again encountered this problem.
Have used microsofts Fix It tool, it says windows update components must be repaired, click fix yet problem remains.
I would appreciate any help before continuing to install further programs onto the computer.
Also, if I try to change settings for how updates are received (auto etc.) and change settings it states that the publisher is unknown, this cannot be correct as I ahve activated my Windows so not sure what the issue is.
I should probably say I use Norton IS 2011, but I am unsure if this would cause such an issue.
Opened windows task manager and checked on services tab, windows update is running (wuauserv).
Ran a clean re-install of windows and again encountered this problem.
Have used microsofts Fix It tool, it says windows update components must be repaired, click fix yet problem remains.
I would appreciate any help before continuing to install further programs onto the computer.
Also, if I try to change settings for how updates are received (auto etc.) and change settings it states that the publisher is unknown, this cannot be correct as I ahve activated my Windows so not sure what the issue is.
I should probably say I use Norton IS 2011, but I am unsure if this would cause such an issue.
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