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		<title>Jhorne at 14:49, 23 February 2020</title>
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		<updated>2020-02-23T14:49:42Z</updated>

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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 14:49, 23 February 2020&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Occasionally you get a server that refuses to stop the wuauserv process, so it needs a reboot with the service disabled, and try the above again&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;shutdown -r -f -t 00&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Jhorne</name></author>
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		<title>Jhorne: Created page with &quot;Category:Windows Windows Update often needs a swift kick in the pants.  Paste this script into an admin-command promt, and it will reset the software cache folders, verify...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2020-02-22T13:54:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/index.php?title=Category:Windows&quot; title=&quot;Category:Windows&quot;&gt;Category:Windows&lt;/a&gt; Windows Update often needs a swift kick in the pants.  Paste this script into an admin-command promt, and it will reset the software cache folders, verify...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Windows]]&lt;br /&gt;
Windows Update often needs a swift kick in the pants.  Paste this script into an admin-command promt, and it will reset the software cache folders, verify the updates source.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
net stop wuauserv&lt;br /&gt;
net stop cryptSvc&lt;br /&gt;
net stop bits&lt;br /&gt;
net stop msiserver&lt;br /&gt;
cd c:\windows\&lt;br /&gt;
ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old&lt;br /&gt;
cd c:\windows\system32&lt;br /&gt;
ren catroot2 Catroot2.old&lt;br /&gt;
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow&lt;br /&gt;
REG QUERY &amp;quot;HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
sc config wuauserv start=auto&lt;br /&gt;
@RD /S /Q  c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution.old&lt;br /&gt;
@RD /S /Q  c:\windows\system32\Catroot2.old&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Jhorne</name></author>
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