error code 80070005

[ytsejamfan]

I have not had this problem until this week. I have been updating Vista
since Feb. without any problems.

This week, I started getting the error code 80070005 saying that windows
could not search for new updates.

Does anyone know why this is happening? More importantly, does anyone know
how to reslove this?

Thanks!

 

[LuisJR02]

I am not sure what causes this, but I found a resolution to the problme
on another forum. If you delete the files in
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, reboot then run windows update.
Manually run the update process and it should begin and run as normal.
Some of the files will not be allowed to delete due to being in use by
the system. Just skip those files and delete the ones that can be
deleted. This should resolve the problem.


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[Sky King]

Luis, if you first enter "net stop wuauserv" (without the quotes) on the
Start/Run line then you will be able to delete all of that folder.

....Sky



In news:LuisJR02.2u3zzi@DoNotSpam.com,
LuisJR02 <LuisJR02.2u3zzi@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what causes this, but I found a resolution to the
> problme on another forum. If you delete the files in
> C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution, reboot then run windows update.
> Manually run the update process and it should begin and run as normal.
> Some of the files will not be allowed to delete due to being in use by
> the system. Just skip those files and delete the ones that can be
> deleted. This should resolve the problem.