Windows update stopped working

[bouncybeats]

Hi,

Need some help. Am using Windows 10 Professional, just re-installed recently. Trying to be safe and to also save on resources, I disabled a bunch of services which I think to be not needed. I didn't really pay attention but in the last couple days, just wanted to make sure Windows updates were up to date. But when I try to run the update, I keep getting this error:

There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80070426)

I've already run through a number of troubleshooting steps, the troubleshooter, the diagnostics, including resetting Windows update from this MS article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/971058/how-do-i-reset-windows-update-components. Also event viewer only says error, 0x80070426

But still, my updates are not running and still getting this same error. Not sure if it maybe the cause is one of the services I set to manual or disabled? So question, does anyone know exactly which services are required for Windows Update to run, and also the startup type it must be set to? And perhaps is there a way to "reset" all the services back to default? Any specific group policies that maybe controlling windows updates?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[Colif]

Other advice i found around was:
right click start button
choose powershell (admin)
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its completed, copy/paste this command into same window:
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth and press enter
SFC fixes system files, DISM cleans image files, re run SFC if it failed to fix all files and restart PC

go into msconfig and set it to default start, that should enable some of the services you have disabled... it doesn't help to randomly shut off services, i would at least have gone off some guide on internet, there used to be sites that showed which weren't essential.

Did you try running system restore back to a date before you made the changes?

 

[bouncybeats]

Other advice i found around was:
right click start button
choose powershell (admin)
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its completed, copy/paste this command into same window:
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth and press enter
SFC fixes system files, DISM cleans image files, re run SFC if it failed to fix all files and restart PC

go into msconfig and set it to default start, that should enable some of the services you have disabled... it doesn't help to randomly shut off services, i would at least have gone off some guide on internet, there used to be sites that showed which weren't essential.

Did you try running system restore back to a date before you made the changes?

Thanks Colif, No, I don't have any restore points going back far enough. I have run sfc /scannow already but didn't work. But I have not tried: Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth. Will give that a go, thank you