Windows Update Error 0x80070424

What is simple and what is difficult depends of point of view. I'll try to give you the best simple instruction (I hope):

1.Download packed TrustedInstaller.exe appriopriate for your system architecture 32bit or 64bit and place on your desktop.

for 32bit system http://www.vistax64.com/attachments/tutorials/16945d1257340284-windows-update-error-80070424-trustedinstallerx86.zip

for 64bit system http://www.vistax64.com/attachments/tutorials/16946d1257340284-windows-update-error-80070424-trustedinstallerx64.zip

2.Download packed TrustedInstaller.reg from here http://www.vistax64.com/attachments/tutorials/16947d1257340458-windows-update-error-80070424-trustedinstallerfix.zip

and place on your desktop.

3.Unpack both files.

4.Takeownership C:\Windows\Servicing folder and add your account to have full control

//see this tutorial how to do that:**http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html**

5.Copy TrustedInstaller.exe from your desktop and paste to C:\Windows\Servicing folder

6.Double click on TrustedInstaller.reg on your desktop->if it will return message "succesfully imported keys to registry", ignore points 7,8,9 and go at once to point 10,if it will return error "access denied" go to point 7

7.Download PsTools http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx and extract from this pack psexec.exe file and paste to C:\Windows\System32

8.Run cmd.exe with administrative previlliges (right click on cmd.exe as admin)

and type in console

psexec -s -i -d regedit

(this command run regedit from "NT Authority\System" account)

9.In regedit,go to File>>Import navigate to your desktop,choose TrustedInstaller.reg and apply.

10.Restart computer.After restart Windows Update should work fine now.

11.If everything work fine now you should restore oryginal permissions to C:\Windows\Servicing folder

-remove your account from permissions to Servicing folder

-Restore ownership of Servicing folder back to "NT Service\TrustedInstaller"

//see this tutorial how to do that http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/159360-trustedinstaller-restore-owner.html

12.Remove downloaded files from your desktop (TrustedInstaller.reg,TrustedInstaller.exe,packed files) they won't be longer needed

I am running vista but this was very little help to me.  I'm not sure if I completed every step correctly.  I'm not sure if the post is filled with programming lingo or if the English is poor but it is very difficult to understand.

I would love to understand how I have owned this computer for about a year and have updated windows dozens of times and now all of a sudden I need to start running obscure programs through a command prompt and changing permissions on system folders just to update windows.

A simpler (or more clearly explained) solution would be greatly appreciated.

If you have Vista then probably you don't have Windows Modules Installer service.Read this (SCENARIO III) http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/258701-windows-update-error-80070424-a.html

I am being told "Windows could not search for new updates" with error code 80070424. 

The solution listed above is the same as that given after clicking on "Get help with this error."

My problem is that all of the services listed above are not listed as "stopped," they all are listed as "started."

I can restart BITS and Windows Update but cannot restart Workstation. 

When I try I am asked if I also want to stop "Computer Browser." 

Clicking "Yes" yields the following error dialog box:

"Windows could not stop the workstation service on Local Computer.

Error 1061: The service cannot accept control messages at this time."

Still can't check for updates.