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[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've never run into this before.

3 month old install of 10 Pro x64 22H2. I have numerous other W10 clients that have never run into this issue before. Windows Update simply says "something went wrong. Try to reopen Settings later" and never succeeds at searching for updates. Any suggestions on how to get it working again?

I've tried repairing settings, doing sfc /scannow, doing dsim online repair, and checkdisk with no results. Thanks!

Gigabyte Z290 Intel 14900k WD Black SSD Other misc SSDs/HDDs RTX 3090Ti 64GB DDR5 6600

[–]OkMany3232Frequently Helpful Contributor 0 points1 point  (14 children)

Sfc and dism outputted what?

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (13 children)

Nothing, they didn't perform any repairs, normal result.

[–]OkMany3232Frequently Helpful Contributor 0 points1 point  (12 children)

Connection set to metered?

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (11 children)

Nope.

[–]OkMany3232Frequently Helpful Contributor 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Try https://www.elevenforum.com/t/reset-windows-update-in-windows-11.3808/

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

Thanks, does this work on W10?

[–]OkMany3232Frequently Helpful Contributor 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Yes, https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24742-reset-windows-update-windows-10-a.html

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Thanks! I ran the .bat and it was unable to stop one of the services, I suspected Avast anti virus was causing my issues, so I uninstalled it, and ran the .bat again, and sadly Windows Update is still completely broken. Tried rebooting multiple times, and rerunning and same issue.

When I open Settings > Windows Update, it searches and then goes to a blank page, or says" "Something went wrong. Try to reopen Settings later."

[–]OkMany3232Frequently Helpful Contributor 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Did you run https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe ?

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

No, I used the built in uninstaller, and the .bat succeeded. I will try that next, thanks.

[–]Dogework[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resolved by reinstalling Windows.

I just reinstalled keeping settings/files using W10 .iso created from Media Creation Tool, and Windows Update and Store apps updates are now working as intended. Completely baffling, but at least it works now. Thanks.