[Tip] Use Windows Update Troubleshooter to Fix All Problems

Microsoft regularly releases updates for different versions of Windows operating system to fix bugs and issues related to security, reliability, stability and performance. These Windows updates include security updates, optional updates, recommended updates as well as important critical updates. All these updates are downloaded and installed by the built-in Windows Update program. It checks for new updates and downloads and installs them to keep Windows up-to-date.

If you are using Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 operating system, this article will help you. Many times we face problems related to Windows Update program. Sometimes Windows Update can’t check for new updates and shows error messages with various error codes. Sometimes Windows Update keeps checking for updates for hours and gets stuck/frozen or sometimes crashes. Sometimes it finds new updates but unable to download or install them. Sometimes Windows Update downloads and installs an update and when it checks for new updates, it again finds the same update and when it tries to download the same update again, it throws error message.

There are many problems and issues related to Windows Update program and all of us face these issues time to time in Windows operating system.

If you face some issues while using Windows Update in Windows operating system, an official tool will help you.

Microsoft provides an official fixit tool “Windows Update Troubleshooter” to help Windows users in resolving all problems related to Windows Update. This tool is available for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 operating systems.

First of all download the tool from following links:

You’ll get “WindowsUpdate.diagcab” and “wu10.diagcab” files respectively from the above mentioned download links.

Now run the Windows Update Troubleshooter tool and you’ll get following screen:

Click on “Advanced” link given at the bottom and then click on “Run as administrator” link. It’ll reload the troubleshooter tool with administrator rights.

Now click on Next button and the tool will start troubleshooting all issues related to Windows Update present in your system.

Once it finds an issue, it’ll show you 2 buttons: Apply this fix and Skip this fix. You can click on “Apply this fix” button to fix the issue immediately. If you think that the issue found by the tool is not important or you don’t want to fix that issue, you can click on “Skip this fix” button and the tool will continue the troubleshooting process.

Once it detects and fixes all issues present in your system, it’ll show a summary of all issues checked and found in your system.

That’s it. Now you can use Windows Update again in your computer system without any problem.

NOTE:

If the official Windows Update Troubleshooter tool not working for you for some reason and gets stuck and shows error messages, our exclusive Windows Update reset script will definitely help you. Check out following article for more information:

Fix Windows Updates Problems and Issues Using Automatic Reset Script

And if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 operating system and Windows Update keeps checking for updates forever, following articles will help you in fixing the issue:

[Fix] Windows 7 Keeps Checking for Updates for Hours

[Fix] Windows 8/8.1 Keeps Checking for Updates Forever

And specially for our Windows 10 users:

Fixing Windows 10 Automatic Updates Installation Problem