Patrick Domingues

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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