**CONCLUSION** I may be way off on this, but this is my understanding of what caused the problem. Correct me if I am wrong. Windows update files were stored on a sector of the HDD which was not accessible due to a hardware failure. Running the following commands through an administrative...
I had the same idea just before I saw your post here. With all of the various symptoms and none of which really linking to each other I ran system diagnostics. Short DST was failed so I'm backing up all I can as it could go at any time. However, that really doesn't explain the update services...
**ANOTHER NEW SYMPTOM** Tried to do a clean boot to eliminate the possibility of a 3rd party program causing the issue at startup. Could not access MSCONFIG through run or directly from a command prompt. Went to re-start, planning to boot into safemode, and after 20 minutes of "Please Wait" I...
All dependent services for Windows Update Service are running. (checked that DCOM Server Process Launcher, and RPC Endpoint Mapper are running as well) Screenshot below. Event Viewer shows this error more times than I can even imagine to count. I'm going to guess upwards of 5000 times. -->...
Windows was set to automatically download updates. I had already checked that the service was running and re-started the service. It's functioning as if a program/virus/something is preventing updates. But I havent found anything running scans. Virus/Malware Scans completed with Microsoft...
Microsoft manages updates and it is a registered version of Windows. Antivirus is Microsoft Security Essentials (company required) and it fails to receive updates as well.
I'll try to make this brief but descriptive. Noticed that Microsoft Security Essentials had not received definition updates in 5 days. Tried to update manually through MSE interface and could not connect to server. Tried to find updates using Windows Update and received an error that the...