What Causes Windows Error 0x80070005

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By: rekha singh | 19 Feb 2010 1:11 pm

What Causes Windows Error 0x80070005

I'm running Windows Vista (Home Premium) When I click "Check for Updates" in Windows Update I get the following error:

"Windows could not search for new updates Error(s) found: 0x80070005"

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I'm running Windows XP and when I click "Check for Updates" in Windows Update I get the following error:

"[Error number: 0x80070005] The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem."

...or perhaps you are a network administrator and your Windows "boxes" refuse to take automatic WSUS updates from your internal WSUS server?

In particular this error 0x80070005 seems to be an issue after installing the Windows XP SP3 service pack, though I have seen it on Vista machines too.

The issue seems to come down to an error with Windows Genuine Advantage Validation on the PC in question.

By: rekha singh | 19 Feb 2010

So here is the solution on How to fix 0x80070005 Error

0x80070005 - Resolution Suggestion:
In most cases you can resolve this error by doing the following:

Step 1

Open up your browser and download the Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool - HERE to your desktop.

Step 2

Simply double click the file and hit the "continue" button.

The tool will now run a diagnostic and hopefully automatically fix the issue on your PC.

Step 3

When finished you should see an entry:

Validation Status: Genuine

Now REBOOT your PC and try Windows Updates again...

Step 4

Another quick way that has been reported to fix this issue is to visit the online validation too:

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/def...displaylang=en

...and that should have now resolved the 0x80070005 error for you!

Source: UpdateXP.com

By: rekha singh | 19 Feb 2010

Many users have the same problem I had today, when tried to install KB892130 from windowsupdate. It cannot be installed and returns 0x80070005 errors. No need to say that as usual, I didn't found any useful information in MS
knowledgebase (...)

I tried to install it manually getting cab contents in a temp folder and running update.exe. After restore point creation, installation failed with an 'Access denied' error message. I thought that something is wrong with
security and access levels of my system folders and files.

Anyway, if you have the same problem, try the following steps.

1. Boot in safe mode
2. Login as administrator
3. Open command prompt (Start - Run - cmd.exe)
4. In command prompt enter next command (omit quotes): secedit /configure
/cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose
5. If it fails on 3-4 percent, reboot in safe bode and try a second time. When it finish (100%) ignore any error message and reboot your computer.
6. Login as usual, clean IE hostory, cookies, temp files and go to Windows update

This time KB892130 will install successfully.

Good luck,

By: rekha singh | 19 Feb 2010

What Causes Windows Error 0x80070005

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