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I ran the Microsoft Windows malicious Software Removal Tool. It is worth investigating whether you or someone else has accidentally blocked the process via your firewall.Īlso you should run a malware, trojan and virus scanner. My first thought was whether my firewall was blocking the update process. However below are a few other solutions, that you might want to try to resolve this error.Ĭheck your firewall, run malware, trojan and virus scans! I’ve not included the simple solution of how to turn the Windows Update service off and on. Now before I reached that two-fold solution I tried out the following, which might work for you. Another reboot and I am able to update again!Ī huge thank you to Vicky Maan for the second part of the solution (above), which you can read here. Finally I turned net start wuauserv and pressed enter. Then I typed ren c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution softwaredistribution.old and pressed enter. Secondly via a command prompt as an administrator I typed net stop wuaserv and pressed enter. The software scanned the system and fixed some files. To cut a long (two hours) story short, the solution for me was two-fold: The solution that worked for me!įirstly I backed up my important data! Then as an administrator I opened a command prompt and typed sfc /scannow. What? My Vista computer was truly &*(*! I found my computer wasn’t running the latest operating system updates and the virus database is outdated! Nightmare! It just so happened I had recently upgraded my hard drive, which might be a coincidence. Check your Internet or network connection and try again. This app couldn’t check for virus and spyware definition updates. Virus and spyware definitions couldn’t be updated. Then via Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) I saw the following error: Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. To my surprise I saw the following error:

So I decided to go and manually run the process.

So I turned my Microsoft Windows Vista computer on and realised it hadn’t updated in a while. Warning: You use any advice and information within this blog post at your own risk! The writer, nor Small Business Tech are to be held responsible for any problems that occur through actions based upon the advice below. This blog post provides a handful of solutions to fix the Windows Update and Microsoft Security Essentials update issue.