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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

so no change as far as update running or update service running at all and whats odd is earlier today when I sent you that log the one I pasted the contents from and you said i sent you the wrong log I found that I believe in windows\logs\windows update\ its #13 reply above but that log...
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- Post #25
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

so no luck getting update to actually run as I have mentioned previously and from what I can watch real time is that Win update service fails to start regardless and therefore the result is ultimately windows update failure.I can change the startup from disabled to anything else and it gets...
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- Post #23
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sorry don't know why that posted twice. think its because it was lagging when i drooped files on the window so then tried again must of just been delayed .
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- Post #21
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

so definitely forward progress after running win_update_AIO and reboot tried running update got the same error then decided to see if when i checked for updates it would work it actually did and because it populated so quickly and because I have been trying both the view installed updates and...
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- Post #20
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

that's actually funny you should ask for that. I have that and just was going to do that last night so was reading up on the things that it can do as it seems like some powerful software. so yeas Will do.
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- Post #19
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

After you made me realize the scan passed I rebooted and tried to run update but it did the same thing its been doing for somewhere like a year or so in that it says unable to start update the service is not running. So then went and checked Services and was still disabled as it has been And...
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- Post #17
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I did realize that was a different log I i thought since all the scans were coming up ok that perhaps that log was capturing something that the CBS wasn't
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- Post #15
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So Yea still having issues with update as the update service refuses to start regardless of what I do and or what order was able to find the update log file and Got this bellow. The corruption issue helped drastically as far as performance in that i can at least get around without every thing...
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- Post #13
- Oct 23, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

will do Thank you so very much I will report back with results .
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- Post #11
- Oct 22, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

To tell you the truth I was just going through the motions and following your instructions and not wanting to Run any other scans or try updates untill you were finished so didn't really look . I had seen that permissions had been changed back and less files were corrupted so Should I just...
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- Post #9
- Oct 22, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SFCFix version 3.0.2.1 by niemiro. Start time: 2019-10-22 16:25:13.622 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update 3 - amd64 Using .zip script file at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\SFCFix.zip [0] PowerCopy:: Successfully took permissions for file or folder...
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- Post #7
- Oct 22, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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- Post #5
- Oct 22, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SFCFix version 3.0.2.1 by niemiro. Start time: 2019-10-21 19:14:23.345 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update 3 - amd64 Using .zip script file at C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\SFCFix.zip [0] PowerCopy:: Successfully took permissions for file or folder...
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- Post #3
- Oct 22, 2019
- Forum: Windows Update
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Unable to fix file corruption causing update to fail on win 8.1 after running SFCFix.exe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

After first running sfc and dism I ended up with 67 un-repaired errors Found this site and ran SFCFix which finished with :CBS & SFC total detected corruption count: 40 Not sure of what Caused problem to begin with My guess was malware as File permissions have been very messed up also...
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- Oct 21, 2019
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- Forum: Windows Update

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