Windows Update Error Code 80244019

Anonymous
2014-06-06T03:12:09+00:00

Hi, I'm using Windows 8 (not 8.1) on an Acer Aspire V3-571 laptop. I get my internet via the phone line with a TP-Link ADSL modem and wifi-router. I use wifi all the time. For a year and a half since I bought this laptop everything has been fine. I keep my computer clean with Windows Defender, Spybot and Malwarebytes Free. I update them almost every day and run full scans once a week. I haven't had a virus for ages.

But now over the last week or so I get Error Code 80244019 if I try to do Windows Update. I've tried switching off the wifi and using a LAN cable from the router to the laptop, but it's just the same.

But here's the odd thing. I've tried switching off the modem entirely, and, instead, using a plug-in USB modem with a mobile phone SIM card inside charged up with an internet account, and Windows Update works! No problem.

So, Windows Update doesn't like my ADSL modem suddenly after one and a half years of being OK, but, it does like my plug-in USB mobile phone system modem!

I've tried resetting the ADSL modem back to its original factory settings and starting again, but it's still no good. I get the same error code.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2014-06-07T13:14:27+00:00

Hi,

Thannk you for replying with the status of the issue.

First of all I would like to apologize for incomplete steps.

I would suggest you to try the following steps to turn on Data Execution Prevention.

Follow the steps to turn on Data Execution Protection:

a. Click on This PCand right click on free space and click Properties.

b. Click on the Advanced system settingsand then click on Advanced tab.

c. Click on Settings under Performance.

d. Click on Data Execution Prevention.

e. Click on Turn on DEP for Essential Windows Programs and Services only.

i. Click on Apply. Click on OK twice. 

j. Restart computer and check.

Also try Method 2 and once you are done with the troubleshooting steps reply with the status of the issue.

We will be happy t assist you anytime.

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Anonymous
2016-02-04T15:25:45+00:00

I solved this issue by checking out which update it stumbled on (check out update history). In my case it was "KB907417: Update voor Office 2003".

I downloaded the update and manually installed it. Then I rebooted the laptop (Dell Latitude). After that the problem was solved.

https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/download/details.aspx?id=10624

Best regards,

Michiel

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T21:09:57+00:00

    Your info wasn't simply just missing. You copied something potentially dangerous from another unrelated topic.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-01T23:54:35+00:00

    I actually got Windows Updates to work by changing from 'Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only' to 'Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:'

    This picked up the new updates available and installed successfully.

    I then changed it back to what the initial setting and ran Windows Updates and didn't get the error message.

    The only system change I had made was installed AVG so it may have altered the settings in some way.

    This post did give me a good lead. Thank you.

    Regards,

    BBG

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T20:38:52+00:00

    I have a Linux box acting as a bastion firewall and proxy server.  I got this error on every single Windows computer (Windows 7 and 8.1) behind the bastion.  The bastion is running Squid -- a web caching server.  My problem turned out not to be the windows boxes but Squid.  By clearing the Squid cache on the bastion, Windows Update started working again.

    Several things could have caused the problem -- I didn't try to figure out which was which:

    a) Microsoft might not have put a disposal time in the httpd header in which they reported back to a machine on my network that no updates were available (this would happen if the report is done outside of a session).  Until Squid thinks the response has expired, it would send the cached "no updates" response to every requester on the interior network.

    b) My DNS (either mine or my provider's) might at some point been poisoned, thus redirecting Squid to fake Microsoft server.  If Squid were caching that result, and the Windows boxes detected the fake response as incorrect...

    If someone is running Squid on their outside facing router (for example, they are running DD-WRT on a wireless router) this could be the reason if the problem is happening to multiple machines at the same time.  Clear the cache and try again.

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