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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Reset Windows 7 Windows Update

Windows Update failed to install unknown error. This is to clean up Windows Update, the patches might already been installed and still shows up in the list.

Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058

net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
net stop appidsvc
net stop cryptsvc

rmdir /s %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution
rmdir /s %systemroot%\system32\catroot2

net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start appidsvc
net start cryptsvc

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