Updates are part of any app or site’s life cycle and same is with the Windows updates and they are for beneficial of the users and proper working of the system too. But there have been users who are facing issues after installing the latest update of windows as they are getting windows update error 80080008 message.
Let us get to know about it and also about the ways to fix this error. You might get the error of windows update 0x80080008 when the update you are doing is either stuck or some of the files of the update are not installed correctly and downloaded correctly as well. But you do not need to panic as there is solution for every problem and hence this error update can be fixed too.
Ways to fix windows update error
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Performing SFC scan
The users can get rid of windows error 0x80080008 if they follow the steps mentioned ad perform the SFC scan for your device.
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For the first go for right click and open the command prompt option from the menu.
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Now type the command prompt and the corrupted files will be looked for so that they can be repaired.
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Restarting the windows update components
To reset the windows update components to get rid of 0x80080008 windows 10 error the users just need to the following.
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Open the command prompt in administrator form and then run the commands that have been given –
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Net stop wuauserv
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Net stop bits
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Net stop cryptSvc
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Net stop msiserver