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Submitted 93 days ago...

dogadept

dogadept

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How do I use windows update when I keep getting a windows update error message?

I keep getting error 80070490

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Answer 2 / 6 - Submitted 93 days ago...

vrpoc

vrpoc

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Holy cow... it doesn't look like an easy fix:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg= microsoft.public.windowsupdate&tid=1f153ed7-8081-4715-a18a-fbf64f9a001 2&p=1

Anyways, a quick thing you can try is uninstall Windows Update and see if reinstalling a fresh version will fix it. It could just be an older version that isn't updating itself for some reason.

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Answer 3 / 6 - Submitted 90 days ago...

dogadept

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I tried the above but it didn't work. As a last resort I reverted the computer to the factory condition when I bought it. Thanks for your answers.

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Answer 4 / 6 - Submitted 89 days ago...

vrpoc

vrpoc

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Yeah, whatever works, man. Good job on getting the program to work. It seems like broken Windows files are the weirdest ones to figure out how they got corrupted, and the hardest to fix.

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Answer 5 / 6 - Submitted 58 days ago...

hongkongpom

hongkongpom

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A couple of options:

If you have Daemon tools or Alchol 12% installed, uninstall them. Or you can manually unistall sptd.sys

If that doesn't work, then this tool has worked for lots of people.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52 -4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

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Answer 6 / 6 - Submitted 55 days ago...

dogadept

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Thanks for the info.

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