Hi mlynch02:
Further to the Windows Update
80070490 errors for six security updates shown in
post # 21, the MS support article MS support article
KB947821: Fix Windows Update Errors by Using the DISM or System Update Readiness Tool states that error 80070490 is a generic error (
Windows could not search for new updates) that has many different causes, but MS MVP TaurArian's post in
Windows Update Error Code 80070490 also notes that this error is often caused by a corruption in the Component Based (CBS) manifest. Try running the
System Update Readiness Tool (SURT) as instructed in that MS support article (use download link to the 64-bit Vista SP2 version of the SURT at
Download System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista for x64-based systems (KB947821) [October 2014] from Official Microsoft Download Center) to see if it can fix these errors. After you run the tool, a
Checksur.log file should be saved in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS.
Aside from KB4014984 (April 2017 MS .NET Framework Quality Rollup) the updates throwing these 80070490 errors all seem to be related to Windows Server and cryptography/digital certificate handling, and they could be unique to your
Vista Ultimate OS which includes features like BitLocker disk encryption, IIS (Internet Information Services for Windows Server), Network Access Protection, etc. For example, KB2813430 and KB2862966 improve cryptography and digital certificate handling in remote hosts, KB2868626 is a Win Server 2003 update, KB967723 is a Win Server 2008 update, and KB2808679 is an optional hot fix to protect against internal URL port scanning. If you successfully applied the
MicrosoftRootCertificateAuthority2011.cer certificate file as instructed in
post # 14 then I don't know why the .NET Framework rollup
KB4014984 still won't install correctly, but the other five updates might not even be necessary for your system if you aren't using your Vista Ultimate machine as a client/server on a domain.
You also said in
post # 20 that "
Vista has ballooned to over 212GB's since I started this install, beginning with a new Disk Drive." If this is the 1 TB drive shown in your image in
post # 21 did you perform any quality checks on this new drive before you performed your clean reinstall of Vista Ultimate? If this is a SATA HDD (i.e., not a SSD) you might want to run a
thorough Check Disk that scans for and attempts recovery of bad sectors (e.g., chkdsk /r) as instructed in the tutorial
How to Run Check Disk at Startup in Vista or Windows 7, just in case System File Checker (sfc /scannow) is writing files that need to be repaired into a bad sector and causing SFC to find the same corrupted files after every boot-up. A Check Disk of a 1 TB hard drive could take several hours and should not be interrupted once it starts. Check Disk logs can be viewed in the Windows Event Viewer under Windows Logs | Application (Source =
Wininit; Event ID = 1001).
It might also be helpful if you could attach a copy of your
Windows Update log (C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log) to you next reply.
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