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Showing posts with label running. Show all posts
Friday, February 3, 2017
Windows 8 1 preview installed and running on my Surface RT
Windows 8 1 preview installed and running on my Surface RT
Microsofts Build conference for developers started today and I got the email this afternoon that the Windows 8.1 preview was available for download (legitimately). Performed the necessary update, then went into the Windows Store and downloaded the 8.1 for RT and boom goes the dynamite! Windows Blue is in the house. Here is the link if you want to bite, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/download-preview. Caveat, per Microsoft, if you install this preview, you will have to reinstall all of you apps when the real 8.1 comes out in the fall. Eat up!
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Windows cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running
Windows cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running
Sometimes Windows 7 may not let you download updates because of some issues with the Software Distribution folder. This may even happen soon after a fresh install of Windows.
Heres how to fix it.
Open command prompt in elevated mode and type:
net stop wuauserv
This will stop the Windows Update service.
Next enter this command:
ren %windir%SoftwareDistribution softwaredistributionold
This will rename the Software Distribution folder so the system will have to recreate a new empty one.
Now all we have to do is restart the Windows Update service by entering:
net start wuauserv
Now we can retry downloading updates from Windows Update.
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