Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Windows Update Error 4024800A

I just ran into a problem with one of my virtual server snapshots not wanting to update.  It would start to check for updates, then stop with error 4024800A.  It looks like what had happened was that it was in the middle of checking when I last snapshotted the machine.  Restoring the snapshot caused the software distribution repository to become corrupted.  To fix it, I opened a command prompt as administrator and ran the following:

net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
rd /s /q %windir%\Softwaredistribution
net start wuauserv

Thanks to Mustang on Windows EightForums for the help and Google for helping me find it!

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