Reset Windows Update in Windows 10  

Hi Callender and Paul,

Thank you very much for your so kind help on this.
This issue has cost too much of my time. I have finnally fixed it now by reinstalling the system.

Reinstallation takes much less time than troubleshooting, as the old saying goes.

I am getting this error when I try do do the update. I ran the above update reset .bat script to no avail. I started the recommended services in services.msc. Windows Update, Background Intelligent Service.

What to try next?


There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80073701)

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I ran the .bat as admin, got a few errors but it rebooted. Still cannot update.

I am on 21H2 (19044.1682)

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Bob1212 said:

Also, there were quite a few "registry key or value was not found." I just ran them from an admin cmd to see which produces that error. E.g, the first is regsvr32.exe /s atl.dll
But there were no errors produced that way, copy/pasting in about 10 at a time.

This is what I got also.

Anyway, still getting 80073701 error

Brink said:

Hello @dictum,

Are you able to install the KB5017380 update?

KB5017380 Windows 10 19042.2075, 19043.2075, 19044.2075

No. Same thing as before, in post #454.

dictum said:

No. Same thing as before, in post #454.

have you allow your telemetry? just asking mate?

No telemetry


but I have another machine identically configured, hardware and software
with no issues.