Reset Windows Update in Windows 10  

Usually if resetting Windows Update doesn't help, a repair install may be in order.

You will not lose anything doing a repair install though.

Hello MIK, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

It's normal to get a few errors for the in use items, but those don't affect the reset of Windows Update.

If you like, you might see if the Windows 10 Update Assistant may be able to get you updated to the latest version of Windows 10. If that fails as well, then you may need to clean install to 1709.

Update to Latest Version of Windows 10 using Update Assistant Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Sure you could add a "pause" command at the end of the .bat file to be able to scroll through it before continuing.

The errors usually come when re-registering the .dll files for BITS and Windows Update. It's normal, and nothing to worry about though.

BSODHunter said:

What about resetting/updating the policies?

Code:

reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /f
gpupdate /force

This would be usefull for the script I think, because there are many tools out there which editing this reg path (O&O, w10privacy, spybot, tronscript...).

Hello Eric, :)

I added this section below to the .bat file in the tutorial to include resetting Windows Update policies to default.

Code:

:: Reset Windows Update policies
reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /f
reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate" /f
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /f
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate" /f
gpupdate /force