Hello all,
I have come back from two months away to find that my computer has gone a bit odd (it may have been like that before but I was busy).
The most obvious symptom is that when I try to update windows defender it says that it can't search for updates and the error code is 80080005.
Windows updates (started from the start menu) has just gives me a blank window.
I tried KB971058 How do I reset Windows Update components? but could only get as far as net stop wuauserv where I got "The requested pause, continue or stop is not valid for this service."
I ran the latest malicious code removal from MS and came up clean, same with the onecare live scanner from MS. SFC /scannow came up clean as well.
I have tried to follow cleaning instructions from this forum and they have had no success as well. I suspect that I am getting help for x32 mixed in with x64 and it is failing due to that.
I would like to know how to solve this.
Mike
Specs (anything missing and I'll add them here as an edit)
Vista Ultimate x64
SP2
4GB ram
Intel Quad Q8200 @2.33GHz
I have come back from two months away to find that my computer has gone a bit odd (it may have been like that before but I was busy).
The most obvious symptom is that when I try to update windows defender it says that it can't search for updates and the error code is 80080005.
Windows updates (started from the start menu) has just gives me a blank window.
I tried KB971058 How do I reset Windows Update components? but could only get as far as net stop wuauserv where I got "The requested pause, continue or stop is not valid for this service."
I ran the latest malicious code removal from MS and came up clean, same with the onecare live scanner from MS. SFC /scannow came up clean as well.
I have tried to follow cleaning instructions from this forum and they have had no success as well. I suspect that I am getting help for x32 mixed in with x64 and it is failing due to that.
I would like to know how to solve this.
Mike
Specs (anything missing and I'll add them here as an edit)
Vista Ultimate x64
SP2
4GB ram
Intel Quad Q8200 @2.33GHz