Thank you Kevin! Step number 2 worked for me.
Is there an error or something?
Solution #2 seems to be working for me, I’ll know soon. However I have a question about 32 bits and 64 bits .Are the instructions applicable to both?
Thank you, solution three worked for me and got rid of a very annoying “Update and shutdown” in my startmenu for quite some time.
When i try solution 3 it says “system error 5 has occured… access denied”
ren C:WindowsSoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
This is the correct syntax. You have to specify the new name of the file that you want to rename at the end. In this case “SoftwareDistribution.old” is the new name.
Hello. Are running the command prompt with administrator privileges?
mine says windows update service cannot be stopped for solution three first step can anyone help
Option no 3 works fine on my laptop. My storage was low and I use airtel 1GB/day data, so I wanted not to update windows. Thank you so vary much developer.
Thank you so much, solution 3 has worked for me.
Thank you for posting this information! I only had to go with Step 1, and the latest update installed successfully after several unsuccessful attempts.
So far so good. It says it fixed the update issues. We will see if it actually installs the updates this time (after like 12 failed attempts since June!)
Thank you.
Try rebooting and then doing it.
Would not let me rename softwaredistribution to softwaredistribution.Old
Thanks. This was helpful
Hello reed1v. Can you please elaborate your question more so we can answer appropriately? Thanks!
And why would you want to do this?