How To Fix Windows Update Patching Issues

If your running into some problems with windows Update and Patching, here are a few options you can take to fix the issue.

Option 1:

  1. Disable everything antivirus.
  2. Reinstall patches through windows update if that does not work move to step 3
  3. Manually download the path that is having an issue from  http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx  

Option 2:

  1. Log in as local administrator
  2. Run disk cleanup. Click on  Cleanup System Files. Make sure All files are selected.
  3. we will now create a .bat file
  4. open notepad
  5. type the script
  6. @ECHO OFF
     echo Simple Script to Reset / Clear Windows Update
     echo.
     PAUSE
     echo.
     attrib -h -r -s %windir%\system32\catroot2
     attrib -h -r -s %windir%\system32\catroot2\*.*
     net stop wuauserv
     net stop CryptSvc
     net stop BITS
     ren %windir%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old
     ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution sold.old
     ren “%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\application data\Microsoft\Network\downloader” downloader.old
     net Start BITS
     net start CryptSvc
     net start wuauserv
     echo.
     echo Task completed successfully…
     echo.
     PAUSE
  7. save to desktop as wureset.bat
  8. Run the .bat file as administrator.
  9. Manually download the path that is having an issue from  http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx  

Option 3:

Use a 3rd party tool to update windows. http://download.wsusoffline.net/


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