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Hemi-Cuda · 10-04-2015, 05:43 PM

A friend of mine asked for help with an old laptop (like 2008 old), so I offered to try wiping it and installing Windows 7 fresh to see if I could squeeze anymore life out of it. Install went fine, upgrade to SP1 went fine, but after that Windows Update refuses to do anything. It sits on Checking for updates indefinitely, and nothing I've tried has helped. A chkdsk /r ran fine but didn't help, I ran the windows update automated troubleshooter, but it gives me an error 0x80070057 that it can't fix. Looking up that error doesn't tell me what the problem actually is, and the fix I've seen to modify a registry value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdat e\UX doesn't work because that entry doesn't exist in regedit

So now I'm out of ideas, anyone ran into a similar issue with Windows Update doing nothing?

10-04-2015, 05:43 PM	#1
Hemi-Cuda wins 10 internets Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: slightly to the left Exp:	Help with old laptop, Windows 7 A friend of mine asked for help with an old laptop (like 2008 old), so I offered to try wiping it and installing Windows 7 fresh to see if I could squeeze anymore life out of it. Install went fine, upgrade to SP1 went fine, but after that Windows Update refuses to do anything. It sits on Checking for updates indefinitely, and nothing I've tried has helped. A chkdsk /r ran fine but didn't help, I ran the windows update automated troubleshooter, but it gives me an error 0x80070057 that it can't fix. Looking up that error doesn't tell me what the problem actually is, and the fix I've seen to modify a registry value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdat e\UX doesn't work because that entry doesn't exist in regedit So now I'm out of ideas, anyone ran into a similar issue with Windows Update doing nothing?