FIX Windows Update Keeps Turning Off In Windows 10/8/7 [Tutorial]
32FIX Windows Update Keeps Turning Off In Windows 10/8/7 [Tutorial]
Windows Updates are a great way of keeping your system up to date. These updates provide important security and various other fixes for the system. However, some users are experiencing an issue where the Windows Updates are automatically turning off. This will happen automatically and randomly. Users are seeing the notification pop up about the Windows Updates being turned off. Keep in mind that there isn’t an issue with the Update itself. Lots of users turned on the Windows Update and the system updated properly. The only problem is that the Windows Update are turned off on their own.
Antivirus: Antivirus applications are known to cause issues with other programs and Windows Update components are no exception. This can happen because of false positives or weird compatibility issues. There are certain antivirus applications that are well known for causing issues like these and the solution is to simply disable the antivirus application.
Windows Update: Your Windows Update service can cause this issue as well. This included update service not getting started properly or a corrupted file in the Windows update folder. Any of these causes can easily be resolved by simply restarting the Windows Update components and making some changes in the registry to add a registry key to set updates to auto.
COMMANDS:
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
sc config wuauserv start= auto
net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
net stop appidsvc
net stop cryptsvc
Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old
net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start appidsvc
net start cryptsvc
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).