This is to help those of you who have issues getting windows to update, most commonly giving you a failed error that there isnt much information for.
1.Click on the Pearl (formerly known as the start menu)
2.type in command, DO NOT press enter, when you see the command prompt Icon RIGHT click and select Run As Administrator.
3.Click Continue in the User Account Control window
4.Type net stop WuAuServ press Enter. Leave the command prompt open
5.Next in windows explorer navigate to %Windows%/SoftwareDistribution rename the folder to SDold close the open explorer
6.Go back to the command prompt and type Net start WuAuServ press enter
7.Close the command prompt
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8.Open windows update it will say it has never ran. Run it and you should be good to go.
Hope this helps!
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