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Support for Microsoft Update

Support for Microsoft Update

Help and support for Microsoft Update and Windows Update. Links to customer service and technical solutions and answers. Look up error messages.

Top issues

Top issues

Error message after you apply update 973879: "Stop 0x0000007e" or "Stop 0x00000050"

Updates are not installed successfully

How to get the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage computer updates

Install updates that failed to download through Windows Update

Windows Update repeatedly offers you an update

Not enough free disk space to install updates

How Windows Update determines which proxy server to use

Windows Update automatically installs updates when you connect to the Internet

The progress bar stops responding at 0 percent when you click "Download and install"

You cannot download updates after accepting the license agreement

Download does not start after you accept the license agreement

Your settings are not saved when you try to personalize the Windows Update Web site

How-to

How-to articles

How to download updates and drivers from the Windows Update Catalog

How to keep Windows and Office up-to-date

How to use Automatic Updates in Windows XP

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Windows Update fails while scanning for, downloading, or installing updates

After you install the updates, the computer does not operate correctly

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Last Review : May 4, 2012