Vista - Working cure for Vista update headaches.

Hi,

Twice since I got Vista updates have refused to install. All of a
sudden a few updates times out with a cryptic error message. Both times
I have used Microsoft support which is free for Windows Update on
Vista. The first time I went through tons of things MS Support thought
would solve the problem, but no go. The first time the end game was a
reinstall of of the OS. The second time I recognised the support
pattern and knew it would end with yet another reinstall so I dug deep
and finally found a solution which worked. Since I've seen quite a few
posts on problems with Windows Update, and tons of methods which
doesn't work, I thought I would post the working solution here:

Do two things over all:

First:
1. Bring up an elevated (Administrator) command prompt

2. Execute the following commands sequentially:

a. fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\

b. cd /d %windir%\system32\config\txr

c. attrib -r -s -h *

d. del *

Second:

Start an elevated (Administrator) cmd.exe

Type: Cd %windir%\System32\SMI\Store\Machine
Type: Attrib –a –h –s *.TM*
Type: Del *.TM*

NOW REBOOT! After reboot updates should install

I have no clue why this works, but it does. I hope this will help a few
people who otherwise would have to reinstall Vista.

Interestingly enough this is the only problem I have had with Vista.
Pretty amazing!


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