Error Code 80248015

I deleted mine and nothing happened except the loss of the update history. Installed updates is still there. My file was 6.5gigs. Leave it or blow it away, it is up to you.

I was the one who suggested (re)installing Silverlight (page 5 of this thread) to get those Microsoft update option choices back. ;o))

And WU is working correctly for me this morning on this Win 7 32-bit PC, though it took a long time searching before offering the latest MSE definitions today. Guess millions of PCs are all competing for time on MS servers to get updates today after yesterday's mess...

Gborn: Thanks for all your input regarding this problem. My updates are now working correctly but I have one final question.  During the outage I renamed the distribution folder to .old and restarted WU. This gave me back WU for windows only and I manually updated MSE for a workaround. I am now wondering what to do with the old folder that I renamed.  It is over 1gb and I assume is so large due to having the update history among other data.  Do I just leave it alone as I have ample disc space or should it be deleted?    Thanks

Microsoft has released a fix. For those who has still issues with Windows Update, because the fix isn't installed automatically, see my blog post for further assistence. Hope it helps:

Windows 7: Fix broken Update (Error 0x80248015) 12/4/17

Thanks GBorn!!!

I did everything your blog post says to do, including the Silverlight installation and YES everything is back to normal and working just fine. So I would encourage anyone reading this to take the link.

I gave up on Windows 7 a long time ago.