When I try to use the Windows updates to and the following error message: Windows update cannot currently check updates, because the service is not running

have tried to use windows update and get the following error message: Windows update cannot currently check the updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart you computer. I rebooted several times. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am not very computer

Original title: update windows

Solution 1:

Try this: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/cannot-run-windows-update-on-a-windows-7-pc/

Solution 2:

You can try to stop and restart the Windows Update Service (wuauserv). Open a command line window (run as administrator) and enter the following lines:

net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll
net start wuauserv

If this does not help, try Microsoft Fix It service to reset your Windows Update components:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058/en-us

I hope this helps.

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