{"id":631,"date":"2012-05-29T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2012\/05\/29\/windows-update-failed-on-my-windows-7-pc-and-i-got-really-stuck\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:17:00","slug":"windows-update-failed-on-my-windows-7-pc-and-i-got-really-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2012\/05\/29\/windows-update-failed-on-my-windows-7-pc-and-i-got-really-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update failed on my Windows 7 PC, and I got really stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/helpdeskgeek.com\/windows-7\/cannot-run-windows-update-on-a-windows-7-pc\/\">Cannot Run Windows Update on a Windows 7 PC?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to update an a Windows 7 PC, and I got this message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>windows update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. you may need to restart your computer.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found the above article <u>through<\/u> an article resp. a comment on\u00a0<i>answers.microsoft.com<\/i>\u00a0. The official answers were not really helpful at all, a reinstallation was not a serious option for me.<br \/>\nI proceeded as suggested in the above article, basically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stopping the Windows Update services through services.msc,<\/li>\n<li>deleting everything below\u00a0C:WindowsSoftwareDistribution (yes!),<\/li>\n<li>restarting the\u00a0Windows Update services through services.msc,<\/li>\n<li>starting the Windows Update on the Control Panel again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>I had the Service Pack 1 ISO image downloaded and burnt on a DVD, but the setup.exe from the DVD pointed me to the same problem as above.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot Run Windows Update on a Windows 7 PC? I tried to update an a Windows 7 PC, and I got this message: windows update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. you may need to restart your computer. I found the above article through an article resp. a comment on\u00a0answers.microsoft.com\u00a0. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-ab","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}