Windows update service not running

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Today I tried running windows update and ran into a problem saying that windows update service might not be running and i need to restart my computer but after many restart its still not running.

edit: sorry I forgot to include that info my first post

windows 7 64 bit upgrade from vista 64

Mcafee security center 1 year subcription

I dont shutdown my computer its 24/7 my last windows update install was 01/13/2010. The automatic update service is not in the services.msc

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If you get the error message that the update service is not running, the first thing to check is that the service is on automatic. If it is, then go to your automatic updates settings, and turn them completely off. It's the "not recommended" setting, never check for updates. After you have set updates to this, go to the control panel and manually check for updates. It worked well for me; it checked for the updates, installed them, and afterwards I could set it to automatic updates and it worked. This was on a Windows 7 system.

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Thanks all for the support! But I think its a corruption problem and as I am looking into windows 7 programs some of them are not working anymore. so i decided to put in the win 7 dvd and did another upgrade from win 7 itself and it worked now after 4 hours of reinstallation

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2015-09-29T20:50:42+00:00

I followed the instructions in the article at helpdeskgeek and got as far as downloading the registry file but I got an error message so I tried to get the download while running Safe Mode, but was unable to connect to the internet while in the Safe Mode. BITS is not showing up in my window service, I need another way to correct all the registry entries that are associated with the BITS service. if I don't get updates for my system soon, I'm afraid I'm going to have to do a system restore back to when it my computer was new. I would hate to have to do that.

Could someone PLEASE HELP ME

I am the Admin for this system but windows does not recognize this, I have created other users with Admin Priv. but I still can not get updates.
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Anonymous

2015-09-29T15:52:36+00:00

Thank you tckkitty for this useful information.

I solved my difficulty some time ago and am now happily using Windows 10.
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2015-09-29T09:43:29+00:00

Today I tried running windows update and ran into a problem saying that windows update service might not be running and i need to restart my computer but after many restart its still not running.

edit: sorry I forgot to include that info my first post

windows 7 64 bit upgrade from vista 64

Mcafee security center 1 year subcription

I dont shutdown my computer its 24/7 my last windows update install was 01/13/2010. The automatic update service is not in the services.msc

So I spent almost an hour in this post and others trying to solve this exact problem. I was about to do a system restore when I thought I'd try a Google search one more time. I found this article at helpdeskgeek.com& thought I'd give it a try.

It worked like a charm! In my situation, I had to recreate the BITS service because it was completely gone. This article gave me easy step by step instructions on how to do that, as well as correctly formatted commands so I could just copy & paste. I run 7 Ultimate 32, but there are instructions for most Windows systems, including XP, Vista & even Windows 2000!

I hope that you were able to solve your problem, and I hope that others find this helpful!
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