vista windows update problem

junya · 9 Jul 2007 at 23:56

on my vista ultimate 32 bit i keep getting this error when trying to use windows update:

code 80070422

i've done a google, and it tells you to check that the necessary services are on automatic which they are, but it still doesn't work, anyone any ideas!?

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brendy · 10 Jul 2007 at 00:49

Yes there is a reg hack to fix this, copy and paste all of the quoted text into a file and name it vista.reg or similar (as long as its .reg) and run it. This re enables updates and works fine, Ive noticed that I still need to rerun it every so often.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate\DisableWindowsUpdateAccess]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000

"AUOptions"=dword:00000000

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoDevMgrUpdate"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]

"NoUpdateCheck"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate]

"DisableWindowsUpdateAccess"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000000

bledd · 10 Jul 2007 at 01:05

once you've pasted it in,

delete the space between Win dows and Curre nt though! -edit and Upd ate

brendy · 10 Jul 2007 at 01:10

bledd. said:
once you've pasted it in,

delete the space between Win dows and Curre nt though! -edit and Upd ate

LOL not sure how those gaps appeared, must be an issue between notepad in 2003 and xp... strange.

bledd · 10 Jul 2007 at 01:15

nah its a limitation in the forum software, pretty annoying

(they only allow a certain ammount of characters with no space)

marc2003 · 10 Jul 2007 at 01:16

brendy said:
LOL not sure how those gaps appeared, must be an issue between notepad in 2003 and xp... strange.

nope it's not that, it's the forum software (vbulletin) does it all the time....

edit: too slow.....

brendy · 10 Jul 2007 at 01:20

Ahh explains it, ta. I had copied it and emailed it across from a work server to my home pc then pasted it.

junya · 10 Jul 2007 at 02:35

didn't seem to work, still get the same error message.

perhaps that code is an xp thing? or have you used it on vista?

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brendy · 10 Jul 2007 at 11:47

If you want, i can email you the original I have sat her in my inbox. Its definately a vista fix and has worked on several of our office notebooks.
nelsbrem at hotmail.com obviously change the at to the @ sign. Ill forward it to you.

junya · 10 Jul 2007 at 19:21

still haven't solved this, anyone any ideas?

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weeble · 11 Jul 2007 at 10:13

Am getting similar errors (can't remember the numbers as at work) - seems to be affecting an IE7 update, some email update, and a Vista update. Can download them, but not install them.

OEM version of Vista x86 Premium

Oddly, the error codes aren't on Microsoft websites anywhere either...

junya · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:11

still haven't fixed my error.

is there a way to manually download and install updates, as otherwise it doesn't look like i'll be updating windows!!

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