Windows update service not running

Anonymous
2010-01-26T07:06:52+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

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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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Anonymous
2012-06-25T13:42:20+00:00

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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Anonymous
2010-01-27T04:59:11+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    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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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-24T13:49:51+00:00

    RESETTING WINDOWS UPDATE

    Thank you very much Anncurrier for your work. A very good solution to fix the problem "Update service not running, need to reboot pc" message.  Your solution fixed that problem. My update service is back and running smoothly. I don't know what causes it, even I reinstall windows.

    Thank again and hope that will help others people with the same problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-25T14:04:41+00:00

    I want to say thank you to HangVo and Anncurrier for your help with my problem, I now have my update service back, and just in time, I was about to do a system restore which I didn't want to do. Again Thank You

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