Windows Update Error 0xC80003FB

March 5th, 2008 . by Ali

Click Start, select Run, type in: services.msc
then press enter
Now look for the Automatic Updates Service, right click it and choose to stop

Click Start, select Run, type in: %windir%\SoftwareDistribution
then press enter
Open the Datastore folder and delete its contents.

Click Start, select Run, type in: type services.msc
then press enter
Now look again for the Automatic Update Service and choose to start

Try running the Updates again.

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comment number 1 by: Avi
January 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Thanks for the tip, but did not solve it for me. Problem still exists.
comment number 2 by: the x
March 4th, 2009 at 9:09 am

very helpful. thanks alot.
comment number 3 by: Antoni
March 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

Thanks - very helpful. Now it is works.
comment number 4 by: windows vista skins
August 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pm

thanks for this section, i learn new things
comment number 5 by: greg
February 10th, 2010 at 5:18 am

Thanks you a lot. It’s working now

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