Reset Windows Update in Windows 10

wrkbrt · 06 Sep 2018

Thank you for this. Worked perfectly on my Win 10 Acer. Was receiving update error and this fixed it as expected.

Brink · 06 Sep 2018

I'm glad it could help wrkbrt, and welcome to Ten Forums.

nichigo13 · 20 Sep 2018

Hi, I think the script messed up my system permissions. after running it... now i'm getting uac prompt for task manager and other programs on startup.

EDIT: i found the fix on this thread. ty

tsunami2311 said:

I know this is it delay, but there is bug that happens when this done atlest every time I done it.

tsunami2311 said:

Doing this will reset your User Account from Admin to Standard depsite it saying it Admin, To fix this one has to open an admin CMD and run
net user administrator /active:yes

Sign out of computer go into the Administrator that is listed there go to User Accounts>manage account types you will notice it say ADMIN is selected ( its really not) pick standard hit apply go back into manage accounts types it will now show standard ( as it really is now) select Admin hit apply.

Account Type - Change in Windows 10

Sign out go back to your normal user name. open task manager will no longer prompt the uac window. from there you can open an admin CMD and run
net user administrator /active:no

to turn off that admin login

The bug seem to set users back to standard but it wont update GUI. I have now had to do this 3 times each time after the wu reset was used

Brink · 20 Sep 2018

Hello @nichigo13,

Just to verify and for more info, did you restart the computer immediately after resetting Windows Update with the .bat file?

I've noticed issues like you described for some if the computer wasn't immediately restarted.

nichigo13 · 20 Sep 2018

@Brink yes, I immediately restarted the pc after running the script. and btw my window 10 version is 1603 if that info will help. :)

Brink · 20 Sep 2018

Thank you.

Danutak · 03 Oct 2018

I had a problem with update errors and I just used your .bat . files and it works like a charm, Thank you so much

Brink · 03 Oct 2018

You're most welcome Danutak, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Ciantic · 12 Oct 2018

I get one error (ran without echo off)

Code:

C:\Windows\System32>sc config wuauserv start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Windows\System32>sc config bits start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Windows\System32>sc config DcomLaunch start= auto
[SC] OpenService FAILED 5:
Access is denied.

I'm getting Windows Update error 0x800f0922 when installing KB4464330. Tried this but so far this didn't help.

Brink · 12 Oct 2018

Hello Ciantic,

The last command you got an error for was to make sure the DCOM Server Process Launcher service was set to have its startup type as "Automatic" (default).

Did you restart the computer right after running the .bat file?

Reset Windows Update in Windows 10

Thank you Brink