Question for all-knowing internet...

[jebbypal]

My personal laptop, which I haven't turned on in about 9 mos or more, is telling me that windows update can't check for updates because it's not running and that I may need to restart my computer.

I've restarted twice and still have same thing going on. Any thoughts??? Need to figure out if this is fixable tonight, or if I just need to say f* it and take my work laptop.

Thanks!!!

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[killing_rose]

Here from network, and that sounds slightly similar to what I dealt with with my computer this past week. My Windows Update wasn't working correctly, my Windows kept not-responding, and my computer kept getting a little pissy at me. My system restore wasn't working because it kept swearing that Windows files weren't where they should have been.

Turns out that a DLL issue had caused my user profile to become set to both HomeUsers and Admin; it can only be set to one thing, and it had pretty successfully borked itself trying to figure out what to do.

Unfortunately, I had to have a professional fix my computer. It took 2 hours, admittedly, but. Still had to ask the nice people at answerslive to fix it, and fork over 99 bucks for the privilege.