[Solved] Windows update error: Code 80072EFD

[mazigh]

Hi Nsaners,

I have an issue related to windows update!, I get error found: Code 80072EFD, Tried an app called Windows hotfix downloader but I get the same issue!, Disabled firewall but with no sucess, any can help?, here is the screenshots of what I get:

Thanks in advance

Edit: Changed screenshots hoster

Edited March 4, 2014 by mazigh

[Kalju]

What did you want to download and for what's Your Windows version?

[mazigh]

What did you want to download and for what's Your Windows version?

Download the latest hotfixs for WIN7x64

[Kalju]

What did you want to download and for what's Your Windows version?

Download the latest hotfixs for WIN7x64

Can not you be more specific - what exactly - did you get downloaded but could not install or could not download at all? Anyone can not help you if you do not speak clearly.

[mazigh]

What did you want to download and for what's Your Windows version?

Download the latest hotfixs for WIN7x64

Can not you be more specific - what exactly - did you get downloaded but could not install or could not download at all? Anyone can not help you if you do not speak clearly.

The first pic make it clear but I see that the server is currently down! so I can tell you that the windows could not search for updates, no updates list is shown, that's the issue :)

[Kalju]

Well, it does not show, after all, nothing more than that Your IP is blocked. Think for yourself why this is so. That's why you will not catch any updates.

[SnakeMasteR]

McRip servers are offline, so try this. I myself tried WHD and i couldn't get banned because i never used it before.

[mazigh]

McRip servers are offline, so try this. I myself tried WHD and i couldn't get banned because i never used it before.

Got this after searching for new updates:

[SlimRock]

Try WSUS Offline Update v8.8!

Download Link: http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsusoffline88.zip

[unknownasphyxiated]

try use Control panel > troubleshooting > fix problems with windows update

[SlimRock]

You can also try this:

• Run CMD as admin..
• Now first execute this Command "net stop wuauserv"
• Next execute "cd%systemroot%"
• next execute "ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old"
• Next execute "net start wuauserv"
• Restart your system and try to update your OS...

[jimbojet2011]

There are to many conection with the update server at this time

Try again in a minute or 10-15

Or wait until Windows update itself

Another point is that a program firewall ? blocks the svchost port 80 and 443 must be open and reachable

[Blackchildcx]

purged by me;-)

Edited December 10, 2013 by Blackchildcx

[mazigh]

Try WSUS Offline Update v8.8!

Download Link: http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsusoffline88.zip

It seems working till now, still not finished but I don't know if it gonna download the latest updates I need or all updates since windows 7 was launched XD, thanks for the link

try use Control panel > troubleshooting > fix problems with windows update

Already done but with no success :)

You can also try this:

• Run CMD as admin..
• Now first execute this Command "net stop wuauserv"
• Next execute "cd%systemroot%"
• next execute "ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old"
• Next execute "net start wuauserv"
• Restart your system and try to update your OS...

... "cd%systemroot%" I could not make this working!, give an example? what is systemroot? I copy/past the command but not working

There are to many conection with the update server at this time

Try again in a minute or 10-15

Or wait until Windows update itself

Another point is that a program firewall ? blocks the svchost port 80 and 443 must be open and reachable

I checked some forums most of them were talking about firewall..so I already disabled it but I get the same error!

[SnakeMasteR]

It's cd %systemroot%, not cd%systemroot%

[mazigh]

You can also try this:

• Run CMD as admin..
• Now first execute this Command "net stop wuauserv"
• Next execute "cd%systemroot%"
• next execute "ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old"
• Next execute "net start wuauserv"
• Restart your system and try to update your OS...

Did what you said but the issue persist :/, thanks for the help

[SlimRock]

You can also try this:

• Run CMD as admin..
• Now first execute this Command "net stop wuauserv"
• Next execute "cd %systemroot%"
• next execute "ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old"
• Next execute "net start wuauserv"
• Restart your system and try to update your OS...

Did what you said but the issue persist :/, thanks for the help

Have you tried running WindowsUpdateDiagnostic Tool? :think: !

!)You can try to reconfigure proxy and tracing settings for Windows HTTP.

• Right-click “Command Prompt” Run as administrator". If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
• Type "netsh winhttp reset proxy" (without quotes) at the command prompt, and press Enter.
• Try the update again.

!!) Try using Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of Windows Clutter. :unsure:

!!!) Use System File Checker

in Elevated Command Prompt dialog type following command:

• SFC /SCANNOW

Wait till SFC fixes what it can. Mostly, it plods through and displays the results, like this:

Verification 100% complete.What you see after this line depends on the results of the operation. When nothing is wrong, you see this text:Windows Resource Protection didn't find any integrity violations.

When problems have been found and repaired, you see this:

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.logWait till it checks the Windows OS system files

When problems have been found but sfc is unable to repair the corrupt files,Type:

• dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

After the process is successfully performed, type EXIT and press ENTER.

Reboot your machine for the changes to take effects & Try windows update again.

!v) IF everything fails, Follow this tutorial to Repair Your Windows installation :http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

[mazigh]

You can also try this:

• Run CMD as admin..
• Now first execute this Command "net stop wuauserv"
• Next execute "cd %systemroot%"
• next execute "ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old"
• Next execute "net start wuauserv"
• Restart your system and try to update your OS...

Did what you said but the issue persist :/, thanks for the help

Have you tried running WindowsUpdateDiagnostic Tool? :think: !

!)You can try to reconfigure proxy and tracing settings for Windows HTTP.

• Right-click “Command Prompt” Run as administrator". If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
• Type "netsh winhttp reset proxy" (without quotes) at the command prompt, and press Enter.
• Try the update again.

!!) Try using Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of Windows Clutter. :unsure:

!!!) Use System File Checker

in Elevated Command Prompt dialog type following command:

• SFC /SCANNOW

Wait till SFC fixes what it can. Mostly, it plods through and displays the results, like this:

Verification 100% complete.What you see after this line depends on the results of the operation. When nothing is wrong, you see this text:Windows Resource Protection didn't find any integrity violations.

When problems have been found and repaired, you see this:

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.logWait till it checks the Windows OS system files

When problems have been found but sfc is unable to repair the corrupt files,Type:

• dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

After the process is successfully performed, type EXIT and press ENTER.

Reboot your machine for the changes to take effects & Try windows update again.

!v) IF everything fails, Follow this tutorial to Repair Your Windows installation :http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

1- Windowsupdatediagnostic couldn't resolve the issue, here is the screenshot:

2- Did Proxy setting and Disk Cleanup instructions with no change

3- System File Checker, see the pic below:

4- Repairing Windows installation seems to be the sole solution till now, I'll wait for possible solution then do it if no more propositions :)

[unknownasphyxiated]

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

only for win 8 and above

@mazigh

you need to extract the cbs.log to find which file corrupted

it is recomended to run sfc /scannow 2-3 times

you can check here on how to extract the log

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

you can try use Windows Repair AIO to repair windows update

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

select

- repair wmi

- firewall

- hosts file (if you're using custom hosts, backup first)

- windows update

this is a tip from the dev himself

While the "Reset File Permissions" isn't needed as much as the others there are times where it will come in use. Say you are running the "Repair Windows Updates" but it doesn't work. Because a virus changed the permissions to the files to keep the user from fixing them. While this rarely happens having the ability to regain access to all the Files on the Windows drive will help a lot.

i think you should select repair registry permission and file permission but its depend on the repair log..if you see some permission error,you can select these two

[tezza]

Try this, it's worked for me in the past

Repair & Fix Windows Updates with Fix WU Utility, free and portable developed by Ramesh Kumar

In case anytime, you find that you are facing any issues in running Microsoft Updates or Windows Updates due to any reasons, run this utility.

This utility will re-register a total of 114 .dll, ocx and .ax files which are required for the proper functioning of Windows Updates.

The utility may take a few moments to run. On completion, you will see a dialog box: The process completed successfully.

It has been tested on Windows 7 & Vista, 32bit and 64bit versions.

Home

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair-fix-windows-updates-with-fix-wu-utility

or

http://ge.tt/21mDqC91/v/0?c

Edited December 12, 2013 by tezza

[SlimRock]

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

only for win 8 and above!

@mazigh! sorry, my bad!

Try to repair your windows update using Windows Repair (All In One) tool! (Courtesy :@unknownasphyxiated)

To repair windows installation you can follow this tutorial: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/509994/dism-online-cleanup-image-restorehealth-gives-me-an-error-87how-to-fix-this/?p=3175754

(P.S: you can use USB drive instead of DVD to create a installation disk) :)

[SnakeMasteR]

Try ComboFix and see if it finds something.

[iih1]

Basicly Check it out your Windows OS it is normal size or Lite!..if you have Lite version you can not fixed those Problem.. Just do follow what tezza suggest

or you can try the classic bat file to fixed it. (we talk on Windows 7)

- on command prompt admin privilege do like this: fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\ enter do this 2 or 3 times

- Run this bat file: RebuildWU.bat ..this is my bat file you will rename the extention *.txt to *.bat

- Download readinees tools wu from m$ website

------Start---------

net stop cryptsvc

net stop wuauserv

ren %windir%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old

ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old

regsvr32 comcat.dll /s

Regsvr32 Msxml.dll /s

Regsvr32 Msxml2.dll /s

proxycfg -u

Regsvr32 Msxml3.dll /s

regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /s

regsvr32 cdm.dll /s

regsvr32 softpub.dll /s

regsvr32 wintrust.dll /s

regsvr32 initpki.dll /s

regsvr32 dssenh.dll /s

regsvr32 rsaenh.dll /s

regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll /s

regsvr32 sccbase.dll /s

regsvr32 slbcsp.dll /s

regsvr32 mssip32.dll /s

regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll /s

regsvr32 wucltui.dll /s

regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /i /s

regsvr32 dssenh.dll /s

regsvr32 rsaenh.dll /s

regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll /s

regsvr32 sccbase.dll /s

regsvr32 slbcsp.dll /s

regsvr32 asctrls.ocx /s

regsvr32 wintrust.dll /s

regsvr32 initpki.dll /s

regsvr32 softpub.dll /s

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll /s

regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /I /s

regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /s

regsvr32 browseui.dll /s

regsvr32 browseui.dll /I /s

regsvr32 msrating.dll /s

regsvr32 mlang.dll /s

regsvr32 hlink.dll /s

regsvr32 mshtmled.dll /s

regsvr32 urlmon.dll /s

regsvr32 plugin.ocx /s

regsvr32 sendmail.dll /s

regsvr32 scrobj.dll /s

regsvr32 mmefxe.ocx /s

regsvr32 corpol.dll /s

regsvr32 jscript.dll /s

regsvr32 msxml.dll /s

regsvr32 imgutil.dll /s

regsvr32 thumbvw.dll /s

regsvr32 cryptext.dll /s

regsvr32 rsabase.dll /s

regsvr32 inseng.dll /s

regsvr32 iesetup.dll /i /s

regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll /s

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll /s

regsvr32 dispex.dll /s

regsvr32 occache.dll /s

regsvr32 occache.dll /i /s

regsvr32 iepeers.dll /s

regsvr32 urlmon.dll /i /s

regsvr32 cdfview.dll /s

regsvr32 webcheck.dll /s

regsvr32 mobsync.dll /s

regsvr32 pngfilt.dll /s

regsvr32 licmgr10.dll /s

regsvr32 icmfilter.dll /s

regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx /s

regsvr32 inetcfg.dll /s

regsvr32 tdc.ocx /s

regsvr32 MSR2C.DLL /s

regsvr32 msident.dll /s

regsvr32 msieftp.dll /s

regsvr32 xmsconf.ocx /s

regsvr32 ils.dll /s

regsvr32 msoeacct.dll /s

regsvr32 inetcomm.dll /s

regsvr32 msdxm.ocx /s

regsvr32 dxmasf.dll /s

regsvr32 l3codecx.ax /s

regsvr32 acelpdec.ax /s

regsvr32 mpg4ds32.ax /s

regsvr32 voxmsdec.ax /s

regsvr32 danim.dll /s

regsvr32 Daxctle.ocx /s

regsvr32 lmrt.dll /s

regsvr32 datime.dll /s

regsvr32 dxtrans.dll /s

regsvr32 dxtmsft.dll /s

regsvr32 WEBPOST.DLL /s

regsvr32 WPWIZDLL.DLL /s

regsvr32 POSTWPP.DLL /s

regsvr32 CRSWPP.DLL /s

regsvr32 FTPWPP.DLL /s

regsvr32 FPWPP.DLL /s

regsvr32 WUAPI.DLL /s

regsvr32 wups2.dll /S

regsvr32 WUAUENG.DLL /s

regsvr32 ATL.DLL /s

regsvr32 WUCLTUI.DLL /s

regsvr32 WUPS.DLL /s

regsvr32 WUWEB.DLL /s

regsvr32 wshom.ocx /s

regsvr32 wshext.dll /s

regsvr32 vbscript.dll /s

regsvr32 scrrun.dll mstinit.exe /setup /s

regsvr32 msnsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s

regsvr32 msapsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s

proxycfg –d

sc sdset wuauserv DSadA;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)

regsvr32 mshtml.dll /s

net start cryptsvc

net start wuauserv

--------EOF---------

-Restart your PC hopefuly this may solve the issue see you bye now!

Edited December 16, 2013 by iih1

[mazigh]

Solved, It's because of a rule did with firewall, I re-tried disabling it (first time did not worked that's why I created this thread) and I could update, Sorry and thanks all