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Clearing the Windows Update Cache

posted on April 22, 2015

I’ve been seeing issues with Windows updates where computers are getting errors checking in with WSUS. Out of 250 computers I have half a dozen that have update errors. The fix for these is to clear the Windows update cache.

Clearing the cache is straight forward.

  1. Open a command prompt as administrator
  2. run “net stop wuauserv”
  3. go to the windows folder and delete the SoftwareDistribution folder.
  4. run net start wuauserv

There is a Microsoft fixit you can use as well. Check out this link http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=971058 for more information.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Update, WSUS

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