Fix: Your Device is Missing Important Security and Quality Fixes. Error (0x80080005)

Anonymous
2020-05-21T20:55:46+00:00

here were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80080005).

This is the error I get every time for a few days.

I tried troubleshooting but it didn't work. 

Many have said in other queries(for the same problem) to Reset SoftwareDistribution & Catroot2 folders. But I'm scared to do that because I'm worried if something happens to my laptop.

Please suggest a way to solve this issue.

Below attached is the screenshot of the issue.

Kindly help,

Thank you.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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Anonymous
2021-08-20T11:26:59+00:00

This is a frequent issue sometimes caused by driver compatibility errors: Windows 10 Update Assistant (microsoft.com)

You could try downloading the Windows Update Assistant. It can help bump your version of windows past this sort of update error to the latest version.

Choose the 1st option for the update assistant: Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-08-20T02:12:07+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-13T12:29:29+00:00

    Make sure when you go to start cmd, you right click it and choose "Run as Administrator". Just in case you missed that, because not running as admin will give the access denied error.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-01T21:54:43+00:00

    This is what I'm getting too. I had a windows defender update fail but on second try it updated. No error msg, no indication what needs to update sill. This was a recent upgrade from windows 7 on a laptop after I cloned the drive to get the space to upgrade. I tried the suggestions in this and other threads and no change.

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