Showing posts with label Windows 7 update error 80080005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 7 update error 80080005. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Windows 7 Update Error 80080005


Are you getting windows 7 update error 80080005? I wasted a lot of time chasing this one as this error code is common to Vista and other problems.

Here's a quick fix. The problem is that you probably loaded a lot of 'stuff' and your registry is full. This is what you need to do (under an administrator account):

  1. Open your registry editor
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control
  3. Edit the RegistrySizeLimit key
  4. Set the value to 4294967295 in decimal pr ffffff in hex
  5. Reboot
After this windows update should run fine. Let me know if this helped you or post a quesiton.